Accession number
MS M.195
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.195).
Display Date
1485-1500.
Created
Paris, France, 1485-1500.
Binding
English 19th-century white vellum; lettered: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis; in gray-brown slip case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
182 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 150 x 100 mm
Provenance
Arthur Chichester, first Marquess of Donegall (1739-1799; biographical sketch in pencil on last leaf); Richard Bennett (bought Aug. 17, 1895), his bookplate, his Catalogue, no. 47; 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, between 1485 and 1500.
Decoration: 5 full-page, 10 large, and 13 small miniautures; 24 calendar vignettes.
Artist: Chief Associate of Maître François (tentatively identified with François le Barbier [or François Le Barbier] fils [son], active ca. 1480-1501; see Mathieu Deldicque, Revue d'art, no. 183/2014-1, p. 9-18).
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
Decoration: 5 full-page, 10 large, and 13 small miniautures; 24 calendar vignettes.
Artist: Chief Associate of Maître François (tentatively identified with François le Barbier [or François Le Barbier] fils [son], active ca. 1480-1501; see Mathieu Deldicque, Revue d'art, no. 183/2014-1, p. 9-18).
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-20v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 21r-23v: Obsecro te (End lacking) -- fols. 24r-28r: O intemerate (Beginning lacking) -- fol. 28v: Blank -- fols. 29r-92v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 93r-110r: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 110v-117v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 118r-123v: Short Hours of the Holy Ghost -- fols. 124r-171r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 171r-181r: Suffrages -- fols. 181v-182v: Blank.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
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