Accession number
MS M.259
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.259).
Created
Belgium, 1400-1415.
Binding
Spanish binding in the Mudéjar style, pricked and blind-tooled to a rope design; some compartments washed with gold, ca. 1500; reddish brown goatskin over wooden boards; doublures tooled with patterns similar to the covers; traces of 2 pairs of clasps on the edges; edges gilt and gauffered, in dark blue box case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1908.
Description
112 leaves (1 column), bound : vellum, ill. ; 260 x 180 mm
Provenance
Miramunda de Lavanta; Maria Lopez de Gurea; Condesa de Ribagorça; Manuel, Conde de Ribagorça, 1536; Francisco Saura y Gracian (curate and chaplain at Fresneda in the Archdiocese of Zaragoza, 1789); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1908; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Sarum (Hours of the Virgin); calendar for Wessex; written and illuminated in Belgium, ca. 1400-1415.
Decoration: 12 full-page miniatures; Flemish Gothic style.
Artist: Master of Ushaw 10.
Decoration: 12 full-page miniatures; Flemish Gothic style.
Artist: Master of Ushaw 10.
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fols. 7r-11v: Suffrages (several folios missing) -- fol. 12r: Blank -- fols. 12v-17v: Hours of the Virgin, Matins -- fol. 18r: Blank -- fols. 18v-23v: Hours of the Virgin, Lauds -- fols. 23v-27v: Suffrages -- fol. 28r: Blank -- fols. 28v-31v: Hours of the Virgin, Prime -- fol. 32r: Blank -- fols. 32v-34v: Hours of the Virgin, Terce -- fol. 35r: Blank -- fols. 35v-37v: Hours of the Virgin, Sext -- fol. 38r: Blank -- fols. 38v-40v: Hours of the Virgin, None -- fol. 41r: Blank -- fols. 41v-43v: Hours of the Virgin, Vespers -- fol. 44r: Blank -- fols. 44v-47r: Hours of the Virgin, Compline -- fols. 47r-57v: Salve Regina, O intemerata, and other prayers to the Virgin (one or more missing folio) -- fols. 57v: Prayer to the Holy Face -- fols. 58r-60r: Prayers to the Wounds of Christ -- fols. 60r-61v: Bede's Prayer on Seven Last Words -- fol. 62r: Blank -- fols. 62v-72v: Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany, and various prayers -- fol. 73r: Blank -- fols. 73v-88v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 89r-97v: Commendation of Souls (one or more missing folios) -- fol. 98r: Blank -- fols. 98v-102r: Psalms of the Passion -- fols. 102v-103r: Blank -- fols. 103v-111v: Psalter of Jerome.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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