Accession number
MS M.1084
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1084).
Created
France, ca. 1460
Binding
Late 16th- or early 17th-century French brown gilt calf, imiatating the style of Clovis Eve; in a blue marbled box.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney G. Dillon, Oct. 10, 1991.
Description
124 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 46 x 28 mm
Provenance
Marie Girard, 1608 (inscription on second flyleaf); William Harris Arnold (bookplate inside back cover, 1921); his sale (New York, Anderson Galleries, 10 November 1924, no. 450) to Wilbur Macey Stone of East Orange, New Jersey (his bookplate on first flyleaf recto); given by William V. Griffin or Charles Scribner to Mrs. Milton S. Dillon of Far Hills, New Jersey (neé Vera Maud Cushman; married Milton S. Dillon, who died in 1939; married Catesby L. Jones in 1946; later married Eric F. Kerry; died June 1, 1991); given by Mrs. Dillon to Mr. and Mrs. Sidney G. Dillon in early 1991.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome; written and illuminated in France ca. 1460.
Decoration: 7 miniatures; inside front cover, small engraving as pastedown: S. Madonna del Mondovi a Vico.
Decoration: 7 miniatures; inside front cover, small engraving as pastedown: S. Madonna del Mondovi a Vico.
Contents
fols. 1r-13v: Hours of the Conception of the Virgin -- fols. 14r-20v: Short Hours of the Cross; Prayers -- fols. 21r-34r: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit; Prayers, including Obsecro te and O intemerata -- fols. 34v-51r: Hours of Francis of Assisi; Prayers including Stabat Mater; suffrages -- fols. 51v-60v: Suffrage to Evangelist John; O intemerata, Suffrage to Barbara of Nicomedia -- fols. 61r-82v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany; Prayers -- fols. 83r-90v: Suffrage to Apostle Thomas; Prayers -- fols. 91r-124v: Office of the Dead.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
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