Accession number
MS M.160
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.160).
Created
Paris, France, 1500-1510.
Binding
19th-century red velvet.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
93 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 230 x 150 mm
Provenance
Richard Bennett, bought Dec. 20, 1893; his Catalogue, no. 70; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Paris, France, 1500-1510.
Decoration: 2 full-page, 7 large, and 18 small miniatures.
Artist: various hands, including the Chief Associate of Maître François and the Master of Petrarch's Triumphs.
Chief Associate of Maître François (tentatively identified with François le Barbier [or François Le Barbier] fils [son], active ca. 1480-1501; see Mathieu Deldicque, Revue d'art, no. 183/2014-1, p. 9-18).
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
Decoration: 2 full-page, 7 large, and 18 small miniatures.
Artist: various hands, including the Chief Associate of Maître François and the Master of Petrarch's Triumphs.
Chief Associate of Maître François (tentatively identified with François le Barbier [or François Le Barbier] fils [son], active ca. 1480-1501; see Mathieu Deldicque, Revue d'art, no. 183/2014-1, p. 9-18).
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
Contents
fols. 1v-4r: Sequences of the Gospels (text of John missing) -- fols. 4r-6r: Obsecro te and O intemerata -- fols. 6r-7v: O intemerata -- fols. 8r-41r: Hours of the Virgin (first fol. missing) -- fols. 41r-46r: Hours of the Virgin for Advent -- fols. 46v-57v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 58r-59v: Hours of the Cross -- fols. 60r-61v: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 62r-85r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 85v-92v: Suffrages -- fol. 93r: Prayers (in a later hand) -- fol. 93v: Blank.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
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