Accession number
MS M.431
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.431).
Created
Rouen, France, early 16th century.
Binding
20th-century red velvet with marks of clasps; in green morocco solander case lettered: Horae XVIme siècle.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description
163 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 130 mm
Provenance
Owned in 1543 by Jehan Belon of Soulié in southern France; Gruel and Engelmann collection (bookplate inside front cover); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Tedeschi of Florence May 7, 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, early 16th century.
Decoration: 13 large, and 22 small miniatures; 24 calendar vignettes.
Decoration: 13 large, and 22 small miniatures; 24 calendar vignettes.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-13v: Blank -- fols. 14r-18v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 19r-22r: Obsecro te -- fols. 22v-24r: O intemerata -- fols. 24v-25v: Blank -- fols. 26r-72r: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 72v-80r: Hours of the Virgin for Tuesday, Friday, Wednesday and Saturday -- fols. 80v-85v: Hours of the Virgin for Advent -- fols. 86r-96r: Penitential Psalms -- fols. 96r-104r: Litany and supplementary prayers -- fols. 104v-109v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 110r-114r: Short Hours of the Holy Ghost -- fol. 114v: Blank -- fols. 115r-153v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 154r-155r: Five Feasts of the Virgin -- fols. 155r-164v: Suffrages.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
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