Accession number
MS M.190
Object title
Hours of Marie de Rieux.
Created
Poitiers, France, ca. 1450
Binding
French 17th-century red morocco with the crowned monograms and arms of Philippe de Béthune, comte de Selles et Charost, 1603-1665; lettered: Heures de Louis 11me.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
61 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 216 x 180 mm
Provenance
Made for Louise-Marie de Rieux (ca. 1405-1465), wife of Louis d'Amboise (1392-1469 or 1470); collection of Philippe de Béthune (1561-1649); his son, Hyppolite de Béthune (1603-1665); Charterhouse of Liget (Chemillé-sur-Indrois); sale by Sotheby's (London, Nov. 22, 1897, lot 823) to Pickering for Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 73; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours containing the Office of the Dead for the use of Rome and the Hours of the Passion; written and illuminated in Poitiers, France, ca. 1450.
This volume one of four into which the original manuscript was divided in the 17th century; the three others are in Paris (BNF Ms. Latin 1170); Tours (Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 217); and Edinburgh (National Library of Scotland, MS 32).
Decoration: 7 large miniatures, borders with flowers and birds.
Artist: Master of Marguerite d'Orléans.
There is a very close resemblance between the Betrayal (fol. 42r), Christ Bearing the Cross (fol. 47r) and the Crucifixion (fol. 54v) in the Hours of Marie de Rieux and these subjects in the Hours of Marguerite d'Orléans, dated ca. 1430, (BNF Ms. Latin 1156B, fols. 133, 137 and 141).
The librarian of Philippe de Béthune added a frontispiece, stating that the manuscript had been made for Louis XI of France.
This volume one of four into which the original manuscript was divided in the 17th century; the three others are in Paris (BNF Ms. Latin 1170); Tours (Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 217); and Edinburgh (National Library of Scotland, MS 32).
Decoration: 7 large miniatures, borders with flowers and birds.
Artist: Master of Marguerite d'Orléans.
There is a very close resemblance between the Betrayal (fol. 42r), Christ Bearing the Cross (fol. 47r) and the Crucifixion (fol. 54v) in the Hours of Marie de Rieux and these subjects in the Hours of Marguerite d'Orléans, dated ca. 1430, (BNF Ms. Latin 1156B, fols. 133, 137 and 141).
The librarian of Philippe de Béthune added a frontispiece, stating that the manuscript had been made for Louis XI of France.
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