Accession number
MS M.99
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.99).
Created
Gloucester, England, ca. 1405-1415.
Binding
Late 18th-century English red morocco in brown morocco case lettered: The Gloucester Abbey Hymn Book and Horae - English Ms. on vellum - c. 1430.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description
188 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 220 x 160 mm
Provenance
Found underneath the floor at Linsted Lodge and given (1785) by Lady Teynham to Lord Dacre; collection of Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard; William Morris; Richard Bennett (purchased from Morris's estate, 1897); Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 95; 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 Gloucester; written and illuminated at St. Peter's Abbey, Gloucester, England, ca. 1405-1415.
Decoration: historiated and numerous illuminated initials by 3 illuminators, numerous borders by 4 illuminators, all working in close association.
Artists: various artists among whom are two artists of Oxford, Oriel College MS 75, one of whom has been named by Kathleen Scott the Oriel 75 Master.
Decoration: historiated and numerous illuminated initials by 3 illuminators, numerous borders by 4 illuminators, all working in close association.
Artists: various artists among whom are two artists of Oxford, Oriel College MS 75, one of whom has been named by Kathleen Scott the Oriel 75 Master.
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fols. 7r-52v: Hours of the Virgin and Prayers -- fols. 53r-74v: Hours of the Passion (lacking first folio) -- fols. 75r-91r: Hours of the Lamentation of the Virgin -- fol. 91v: Blank -- fols. 92r-159r: Seven Penitential Psalms (Latin text with English paraphrase) and Litany -- fols. 159r-173r: Suffrages -- fols. 173r-175v: Prayer to the Virgin, O intemerata -- fols. 176r-180v: Prayers to the Virgin -- fols. 180v-187v: Fifteen O's of Bridget of Sweden -- fols. 188r-191v: Four paper flyleaves.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle English
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