Accession number
MS M.189
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.189).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
French 18th-century red morocco, green felt doublure, gold-tooled in Duseuil style; lettered: L'Office de la Vierge.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
124 leaves (1 column, 26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 160 x 100 mm
Provenance
Richard Bennett, his bookplate, his Catalogue, no. 72; 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); calendar for Paris; written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 4 full-page miniatures, 9 large miniatures, 16 small miniatures, 4 border vignettes, 24 calendar vignettes.
Decoration: 4 full-page miniatures, 9 large miniatures, 16 small miniatures, 4 border vignettes, 24 calendar vignettes.
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fols. 7r-11r: Gospel sequences -- fols. 11r-13v: Obsecro te -- fols. 13v-16v: O intemerata -- fols. 17r-63r: Hours of the Virgin -- fol. 63v: Blank -- fols. 64r-76r: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 76v-80v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 81r-84v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 85r-114v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 115r-120v: Suffrages -- fols. 121r-122v: Blank.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
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