Accession number
MS M.658
Object title
Messe pour les Époux (MS M.658).
Display Date
1915
Created
Belgium, 1915
Binding
In red morocco, blind-stamped in a 14th-century monastic style; signed by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; her business card, with comments on the binding, is in the curatorial folder for this manuscript; the slip case was replaced with a modern buckram clamshell box, July, 2001.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1921.
Description
13 leaves (1 column, 27 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 150 x 110 mm
Provenance
Abbaye de Maredret, Belgium; purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943), through Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, Director of the British Museum, in 1921.
Notes
Ms. nuptial Mass; written and illuminated in Belgium at the Benedictine Abbaye de Maredret between 1914 and 1915; the colophon on fol. 13 states that the manuscript was finished on the Feast of the Trinity in 1915.
Texts: nuptial Mass in a French translation followed by the original in Latin; the colophon on fol. 13 is in Old French; preserved in the curatorial file is correspondence in French that explains the history of the manuscript during its composition, including the fact that it was hidden during the German invasion of Belgium--Cf. PML files.
Scribe: written by the nuns of the Abbaye de Maredret.
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink with musical notes.
Decoration: 3 full-page and 5 large miniatures; 10 historiated initials; and 21 historiated bas-de-page compositions depicting scenes from World War I, with illuminated borders in a 14th-century style.
Artist: Marie-Madeleine Kerger (1876-1959) and Agnès Desclée (1871-1931), nuns of the Abbaye de Maredret.
Texts: nuptial Mass in a French translation followed by the original in Latin; the colophon on fol. 13 is in Old French; preserved in the curatorial file is correspondence in French that explains the history of the manuscript during its composition, including the fact that it was hidden during the German invasion of Belgium--Cf. PML files.
Scribe: written by the nuns of the Abbaye de Maredret.
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink with musical notes.
Decoration: 3 full-page and 5 large miniatures; 10 historiated initials; and 21 historiated bas-de-page compositions depicting scenes from World War I, with illuminated borders in a 14th-century style.
Artist: Marie-Madeleine Kerger (1876-1959) and Agnès Desclée (1871-1931), nuns of the Abbaye de Maredret.
Script
textura
Language
French and Latin, colophon in Old French
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