Accession number
MS M.28
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.28).
Created
Besançon, France, ca. 1470.
Binding
English 19th-century red velvet.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1900.
Description
149 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 201 x 155 mm
Provenance
Unidentified arms of original owner (azure a chevron, or charges erased); sold (Feb. 1, 1808) by Edwards of Halifax to Miss Frances Mary Richardson Currer (catalogue 1833, p. 29); her sale (London, 1862, no. 1237); sold 1878 by Sidney E. Cockerell to Theodore Irwin (catalogue 1887, p. 216-217, no. 1368); said to be a Guillaume Libri manuscript; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Irwin Collection in 1900; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Besançon (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); calendar in French; written and illuminated in Besançon, France, ca. 1470.
Decoration: 17 miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations, floral borders with grotesques.
The illumination of M.28 is possibly unfinished. The flesh areas of the hybrid men in the margins of fols. 114v and 115r appear to be unpainted.
Artists: by an anonymous Besançon artist and an artist known as the Master of Charles de Neufchâtel.
Decoration: 17 miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations, floral borders with grotesques.
The illumination of M.28 is possibly unfinished. The flesh areas of the hybrid men in the margins of fols. 114v and 115r appear to be unpainted.
Artists: by an anonymous Besançon artist and an artist known as the Master of Charles de Neufchâtel.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-20v: Gospel Sequence -- fols. 21r-88r: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 88v-93: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 94r-110v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 111r-148v: Office of the Dead.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and French
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