Accession number
MS M.1039
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1039).
Created
Lorraine, France, 1490-1495.
Binding
18th-century red velvet with roll-tooled borders, yellow silk doublures, two silver clasps (one missing).
Credit line
Purchased through the Herzog Fund; 1982.
Description
191 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 154 x 108 mm
Provenance
James Skene; John M. Gray; London, Sotheby's, June 22, 1982, lot 95.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Lorraine, France, ca. 1490-1495.
Decoration: 4 large miniatures, 10 historiated initials, full borders on miniature pages; unidentified arms of former, and perhaps the original, owner on fol. 25v: azure, or a mount in base vert a pine tree proper, in dexter an escallop or, in sinister a lion rampant or, toothed, tongued; French Gothic style.
Artists: Georges Trubert and the Artist of Additions to Morgan 263.
Decoration: 4 large miniatures, 10 historiated initials, full borders on miniature pages; unidentified arms of former, and perhaps the original, owner on fol. 25v: azure, or a mount in base vert a pine tree proper, in dexter an escallop or, in sinister a lion rampant or, toothed, tongued; French Gothic style.
Artists: Georges Trubert and the Artist of Additions to Morgan 263.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-19v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 20r-22v: Obsecro te, incomplete (Miniature and accompanying text missing.) -- fols. 23r-25r: O intemerata, incomplete (Miniature and accompanying text missing.) -- fols. 25v: Heraldry -- fols. 26r-101v: Hours of the Virgin, incomplete (Five miniatures and accompanying text missing.) -- fols. 102r-107v: Suffrages -- fols. 108r-129v: Penitential Psalms and Litany, incomplete (Miniature and accompanying text missing.) -- fol. 130r-130v: Blank (ruled) -- fols. 131r-133v: Short Hours of the Cross, incomplete (Miniature and accompanying text missing.) -- fols. 134r-137r: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit, incomplete (Miniature and accompanying text missing.) -- fol. 137v: Blank (ruled) -- fols. 138r-189r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 190r-191v: Blank (ruled).
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
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