Accession number
MS M.348
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.348).
Created
Avignon, France, approximately 1485-1490.
Binding
Formerly red velvet; now American, 20th-century light brown morocco, gold tooled, by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; in half-tan morocco chemise in tan marbled paper slipcase.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
274 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 125 x 85 mm
Provenance
Bought in Munich (Nov. 1858) by Baron Walther von Grainger; Duke of Hamilton sale (London, 1889, no. 75) to Robson and Kerslake (Cf. De Ricci; not in the Hamilton catalogue of 1882 and therefore possibly added to the sale by the Berlin authorities); no. 631 in an Ellis catalogue (?); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Rossi in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome; written and illuminated in Avignon, France, ca. 1485-1490.
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures; 24 large miniatures; 24 calendar illustrations.
Artists: begun by Georges Trubert and the Master of the della Rovere Missals; completed by a follower of Jean Bourdichon.
Three of the calendar scenes by Georges Trubert (fols. 10v, 24, and 25v) are based on, or models serving, an earlier Book of Hours (Paris, BNF Ms. n. a. Latin 3115, fols. 2, 12, 11).
Revised: 2016
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures; 24 large miniatures; 24 calendar illustrations.
Artists: begun by Georges Trubert and the Master of the della Rovere Missals; completed by a follower of Jean Bourdichon.
Three of the calendar scenes by Georges Trubert (fols. 10v, 24, and 25v) are based on, or models serving, an earlier Book of Hours (Paris, BNF Ms. n. a. Latin 3115, fols. 2, 12, 11).
Revised: 2016
Contents
fols. 1r-6r: Salve sancta facies -- fol. 6v: Blank -- fols. 7r-7v: Suffrage to Anthony Abbot the Great -- fols. 8r-8v: Blank -- fols. 9r-26v: Calendar -- fols. 27r-34r: Gospel sequences -- fol. 34v: Blank -- fols. 35r-38v: Obsecro te -- fols. 39r-47v: O intemerata, other prayers -- fols. 48r-48v: Blank -- fols. 49r-117v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 118r-118v: Blank -- fols. 119r-122r: Short Hours of the Cross -- fol. 112v: Blank -- fols. 123r-126r: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fol. 126v: Blank -- fols. 127r-134r: Hours of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin -- fol. 134v: Blank -- fols. 135r-154v: Penitential Psalms, Litany -- fols. 155r-196v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 197r-205r: Prayers -- fol. 205v: Blank -- fols. 206r-230v: Hours of the Lamentation of the Virgin -- fols. 231r-250v: Hours of Archangel Michael -- fols. 251r-267v: Suffrages -- fols. 268r-273v: Hours of Catherine of Alexandria -- fols. 274r-274v: Blank.
Script
littera bastarda
Language
Latin
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