Accession number
MS M.116
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.116).
Created
Cambrai, Belgium, 1490-1500.
Binding
Brown quarter-morocco by Deborah Evetts, 1984.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1906.
Description
172 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 140 mm
Provenance
Priced £21 in an old English catalogue; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from J. Pearson & Co., London, in 1906; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Thérouanne (Hours of the Virgin) and Cambrai (Office of the Dead, calendar); written and illuminated in Cambrai, Belgium, ca. 1490-1500.
Decoration: 13 full-page miniatures, 2 three-quarter-page miniatures, 1 half-page miniature, 20 small miniatures, and decorated margins throughout (see fol. 101r for example of decorated margin).
Artist: attributed to the Master of Antoine Rolin and workshop by Anne-Marie Legaré; formerly attributed to Jacques Pilavaine.
Decoration: 13 full-page miniatures, 2 three-quarter-page miniatures, 1 half-page miniature, 20 small miniatures, and decorated margins throughout (see fol. 101r for example of decorated margin).
Artist: attributed to the Master of Antoine Rolin and workshop by Anne-Marie Legaré; formerly attributed to Jacques Pilavaine.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar, partial -- fols. 13v-19r: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 19v-23r: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 23v-27r: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 27v-82r: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 82v-100r: Penitential Psalms, Litany -- fols. 100v-146r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 146v-149r: Suffrages -- fols. 149v-150v: Salve sancta facies -- fols. 150v-154r: Obsecro te -- fols. 154v-156v: Stabat mater -- fols. 156v-166v: Suffrages -- fols. 167r-172v: Prayer to the Virgin, Missus est Gabriel Angelus ad Mariam Uirginem -- fols. 172v-173v: Prayer, Avete omnes anime fideles.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and Middle French
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