Accession number:
MS M.971
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Northeastern France, between 1425 and 1450.
Binding:
19th-century imitation of a medieval binding, with enameled silver relief plaques, inset with false gems, front, back, and spine.
Credit:
Bequest of Miss Tessie Jones, 1976.
Description:
126 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound ; 194 x 145 mm
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Arras (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in northeastern France, in the second quarter of the 15th century.
Texts: fols. 1-12v - Calendar in French; 13-16 - Hours of the Cross; 16v-19v - Hours of the Holy Spirit; 20-23 - Gospel sequences; 24-74 - Hours of the Virgin; 74v-75v - blank; 76-89 - Seven Penitential Psalms and the Litany; 90-119v - Office of the Dead; 120-123v - Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, in French; 124-126 - Seven Requests, in French.
Decoration: 4 miniatures, illuminated initials and borders.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and French
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