Accession number
MS M.82
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.82).
Created
Belgium, 1440-1449.
Binding
19th-century English dark blue morocco, blind-tooled.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description
156 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 220 x 150 mm
Provenance
Bought Nov. 12, 1896 by 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. 75; 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); written and illuminated in Belgium in the 1440s.
Decoration: 12 large miniatures; margins with foliate and floreate ornament throughout; decorated initials throughout; Flemish Gothic style.
Artist: Master of the Ghent Privileges.
Decoration: 12 large miniatures; margins with foliate and floreate ornament throughout; decorated initials throughout; Flemish Gothic style.
Artist: Master of the Ghent Privileges.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-17v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 18r-20v: Prayer to the Virgin, O intemerata -- fols. 21r-26v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 27r-32v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 33r-87r: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 87v-88v: Five Joys of the Virgin -- fols. 89r-108v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 109r-110r: Veni Creator -- fols. 110v-111r: Seven Verses of Bernard of Clairvaux -- fols. 111v-112v: Suffrages -- fols. 113r-156v: Office of the Dead.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
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