Accession number
MS M.152
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.152).
Created
Belgium, ca. 1470.
Binding
19th-century red morocco, lettered: Heures MSS.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
106 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 210 x 140 mm
Provenance
Dr. Carl-August de Madai collection (his armorial bookplate); given by him in 1813 to Dr. J.F.C. Düffer at Glauchau, near Halle (inscription on fol. 1); Duke of Hamilton Collection (not in 1882 catalogue); his sale (1889, no. 57); Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (stamp on last page); bought Mar. 24, 1896 by Richard Bennett; his Catalogue, no. 83; 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 Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Belgium, ca. 1470.
Decoration: 4 border medallions historiated with the four evangelists; 1 large historiated initial with the instruments of the Passion and the tomb; 14 other large decorated initials; borders with birds, insects, and other creatures.
Decoration: 4 border medallions historiated with the four evangelists; 1 large historiated initial with the instruments of the Passion and the tomb; 14 other large decorated initials; borders with birds, insects, and other creatures.
Contents
fols. 1v-7r: Calendar -- fol. 7v: Blank -- fols. 8r-11v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 12r-16v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 17r-20v: Prayers to the Virgin Mary -- fols. 21r-24v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 25r-29v: Obsecro te, Prayer to the Virgin, and O intemerata -- fols. 30r-65v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 66r-79v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 80r-105v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 106r-106v: Suffrages to Michael and Mary Magdalen (in an Italian hand) -- fols. 107r-107v: Blank.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
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