Accession number
MS M.197
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.197).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
English 19th-century olive morocco by C. Lewis (?); lettered: Missale Romanum; in green slip case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
130 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 170 x 120 mm
Provenance
Arpajon de Lautrec (?); arms on fol. 75v (gules: a harp or; but possibly the arms of the Psalmist); C. Taylor; T.S. Walker sale (London, 1886, no. 203) to Warton; Sotheby's sale (London, Mar. 19, 1896, no. 410) to Pickering for Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 45; 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, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 3 full-page, 13 large, and 14 small miniatures; 41 border vignettes; 12 calendar vignettes.
Decoration: 3 full-page, 13 large, and 14 small miniatures; 41 border vignettes; 12 calendar vignettes.
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fols. 7r-11v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 12r-16v: Obsecro te; O intemerata -- fol. 17r: Blank -- fols. 17v-70r: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 70v-72v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 73r-75v: Short Hours of the Holy Ghost -- fols. 76r-88r: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 88v-124v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 124v-129v: Suffrages.
Script
textura.
Language
Latin and Middle French
Resources
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