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Breviary (MS M.1065).

Accession number
MS M.1065
Object title
Breviary (MS M.1065).
Created
Lille, France, 1475-1525.
Binding
Original brown calf over wooden boards, with ornamented panel stamp signed: Robiers Plovrins.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. S.R. Knapp, 1985.
Description
269 leaves (2 columns, 27 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 149 x 107 mm
Provenance
Charles d'Amman; George Baker; his sale, New York, American Art Association, Jan. 3, 1923, lot 435; Mrs. S.R. Knapp.
Notes
Ms. breviary, winter portion, use of the collegiate church of St.-Pierre at Lille (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, calendar); written and illuminated in France, probably Lille, late 15th or early 16th century.
Decoration: numerous illuminated initials, filigree initials, and geometric line fillers.
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fols. 7r-95v: Temporale, winter portion; miniature missing between fols. 6 and 7 -- fols. 96r-187v: Psalter and Litany -- fols. 188r-191r: Hours of the Virgin and Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 191r-198v: Hours of the Virgin for Advent -- fols. 199r-202v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 203r-204r: Commendation of Souls -- fols. 204v-222r: Common of Saints -- fols. 222r-268r: Sanctorale, winter portion
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Classification