Accession number
MS M.370
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.370).
Display Date
ca. 1660.
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1660.
Binding
Original citron morocco gilt, red morocco doublures in the style of Florimond Badier; lettered: Prières.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
37 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 110 x 70 mm
Provenance
Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy (1618-1693); his daughter, the marquise de Montataire (ca. 1720); Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); his sale Paris, 1784, no. 5235; bought by Payne for La Vallière's daughter, the duchesse de Châtileau; her daughter, the duchesse d'Uzès; her grandaughter, the marquise de Rougé; the latter's grandson, the vicomte de Lostanges-Beduer; his sale, Paris, Jan. 13, 1872, no. 7; to Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876); his sale Paris, 1879, no. 45; to Fontaine; H. Bordes sale (Feb. 15, 1897, no. 22); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Rahir in 1909 (inv. no. 33416); J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours, unknown use; written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1660.
The text by Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, most of which is erased, consists of satirical verses and prayers reflecting on the morals of his contemporaries; in 1674 he and Mme. de Scudery discussed the text of this manuscript in their correspondence; Nicolas Boileau Despréux (1636-1711) mentions it in his Satires VIII, 40, first published in 1674.
Decoration: eight full-page miniatures, three crowned monograms.
Artist: ascribed to Jean Petitot, but in the Firmin-Didot sale catalogue (Paris, 1879, no. 45) the artist Du Guerrier is suggested.
Scribe: unknown.
The text by Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, most of which is erased, consists of satirical verses and prayers reflecting on the morals of his contemporaries; in 1674 he and Mme. de Scudery discussed the text of this manuscript in their correspondence; Nicolas Boileau Despréux (1636-1711) mentions it in his Satires VIII, 40, first published in 1674.
Decoration: eight full-page miniatures, three crowned monograms.
Artist: ascribed to Jean Petitot, but in the Firmin-Didot sale catalogue (Paris, 1879, no. 45) the artist Du Guerrier is suggested.
Scribe: unknown.
Script
perhaps in humanistic script
Language
French
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