Accession number
MS M.141
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.141).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1390-1400
Binding
19th century tan morocco with small B (for Beaupré) stamped in the center of each cover; lettered: Heures.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
192 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 130 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Jean-Nicolas Beaupré (1795-1869), antiquarian of Nancy; bought Oct. 22, 1896, by Richard Bennett; his Catalogue, no. 43; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Paris (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1390-1400.
Decoration: 14 large miniatures.
Decoration: 14 large miniatures.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-18v: Gospel sequences -- fols. 19r-80v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 81v-98v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 99r-104v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 105r-108v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 109r-151v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 151v-154v: Obsecro te -- fols. 155r-158r: O intemerata -- fols. 158v: Seven Verses of Bernard of Clairvaux -- fols. 159r-159v: Prayer -- fols. 160r-160v: Blank -- fols. 161r-172v: Masses of the Holy Spirit, Virgin Mary, the Cross, and the Dead -- fols. 173r-177v: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin -- fols. 178r-180v: Seven Requests of the Lord -- fols. 181r-192v: Suffrages.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Burgundian Old French
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