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Book of hours (MS M.170).

Accession number
MS M.170
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.170).
Created
Rouen, France, ca. 1500-1510.
Binding
19th-century stamped brown morocco.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
76 leaves (1 column, 25 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 200 x 130 mm
Provenance
Purchased June 25, 1894 by 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. 59; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1500-1510.
Decoration: 14 large miniatures, 24 calendar vignettes.
Artist: stylistically related to the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fols. 7r-10r: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 10r-12r: Obsecro te -- fols. 12r-13r: O intemerata -- fols. 13r-14r: Stabat Mater -- fol. 14v: Blank -- fols. 13r-43v: Hours of the Virgin, Short Hours of the Cross and Short Hours of the Holy Spirit (intercalated) -- fols. 44r-53v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 54r-69r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 69v-72r: Stabat Mater and other Prayers to the Virgin Mary -- fols. 72r-76r: Suffrages -- fol. 76v: Blank.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and Middle French
Classification