Accession number
MS H.5
Object title
Book of hours (MS H.5).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
18th-century reddish brown morocco with gold-tooled border lines.
Credit line
Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
144 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 172 x 117 mm
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1962.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Paris (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 19 large miniatures, 24 small miniatures, 60 calendar illustrations, 512 border illustrations.
Artists: at least 3 artists, one a follower of the Chief Associate of Maître François.
Chief Associate of Maître François (tentatively identified with François le Barbier [or François Le Barbier] fils [son], active ca. 1480-1501; see Mathieu Deldicque, Revue d'art, no. 183/2014-1, p. 9-18).
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
Decoration: 19 large miniatures, 24 small miniatures, 60 calendar illustrations, 512 border illustrations.
Artists: at least 3 artists, one a follower of the Chief Associate of Maître François.
Chief Associate of Maître François (tentatively identified with François le Barbier [or François Le Barbier] fils [son], active ca. 1480-1501; see Mathieu Deldicque, Revue d'art, no. 183/2014-1, p. 9-18).
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
Script
hybrid bastarda and humanistic script
Language
Latin and French
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