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Book of hours (MS M.76).

Accession number
MS M.76
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.76).
Created
Belgium, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1420.
Binding
Rebound in red goatskin in 2012; formerly in 19th-century green velvet (rebacked) with silver corners and clasp (housed separately).
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description
318 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 116 x 88 mm
Provenance
Obtained in Apr. 1895 from Germany by William Morris (1834-1896); Richard Bennett (1844-1900); Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 85; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for as yet undetermined use; written and illuminated in Belgium, perhaps in Bruges, ca. 1420.
Decoration: 26 full-page miniatures; marginal illustration throughout; Flemish Gothic style.
Artist: a master of the Gold Scrolls group.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-50r: Seven Joys of the Virgin (Dutch) -- fols. 50r-51v: Prayers on the Passion (Dutch) -- fols. 52r-69r: Psalter of Augustine of Hippo (fol. 53r is blank) (Dutch) -- fols. 69r-69v: Prayer to God (Dutch) -- fols. 70r: Blank -- fols. 70v-72v: Prayer on the Passion (Dutch) -- fols. 73r-82v: Prayers to Virgin Mary (Latin and Dutch) -- fol. 83r: Blank -- fols. 83v-100r: Seven Penitential Psalms (Dutch) -- fols. 100r-110v: Litany of the Saints (Latin) -- fols. 111r-122r: Bound out of sequence; should follow fol. 131v -- fols. 122-123r: Blank -- fols. 123-131v (followed by 111r-122r): Expanded paraphrase of Psalm 51 (Vulg. 50) (Dutch) -- fols. 132r: Prayer (Dutch) -- fols. 132v-133r: Blank -- fols. 133v-216v: Prayers to God, Virgin Mary, Saints (Dutch) -- fols. 217v-227r: Mass of the Virgin Mary (Latin) -- fols. 227r-228r: Prayer to Ewaldus (Dutch) -- fols. 228v-253v: Prayers; parts of the Mass; instruction regarding the Mass (Dutch) -- fols. 253v-281r: Prayers to Saints (Dutch) -- fols. 281v-282r: Aves of the Virgin (Dutch) -- fols. 282v-287v: Prayers to the Virgin (Dutch) -- fols. 288r-291r: Prayers to God (Dutch) -- fols. 291v-292r: Blank -- fols. 292v-296v: Mass of the Cross (Latin) -- fols. 297r-304v: Commentary on the Seven Parts of the Mass, in verse (Dutch) -- fols. 305r-307v: Prayers to the Virgin (Latin) -- fols. 307v-316r: Ave Maria, explication (Dutch) -- fols. 316r-317r: Prayer to Trinity (Dutch) -- fols. 317v: Table of Contents (German, in a later hand).
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Dutch
Century