Book of Hours

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Accession number:

MS M.1114

Title:

Book of Hours

Created:

Paris, France, early 16th century

Binding:

French 18th-century light brown morocco, gilt tooled.

Credit:

Gift of Mrs. Gilbert Zuellig, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Morgan Library and the 50th anniversary of the Association of Fellows, 1999.

Description:

90 leaves (1 column, 27 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 225 x 162 mm

Provenance:

Le Large, 1630 (inscription on end pastedown); Thomas Rubert de Laning, 1818 (inscription on end pastedown); Mrs. Gilbert Zuellig; gift of Mrs. Gilbert Zuellig in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Morgan Library and the 50th anniversary of the Association of Fellows.

Notes:

Ms. book of hours, Rome use (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Paris, France, early 16th century.
Texts: Additional prayers (fols 3-4v); Calendar (fols 5-7v); Gospel readings (fols. 8-10v); Hours of the Virgin (fols. 11-40v); Hours of the Holy Cross (fols. 41-42v); Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 43-44v); Penitential Psalms (fols. 45-50); Litany, Petitions, Psalm 69 (fols. 50-53v); Office of the Dead (fols. 54-71v); Obsecro te (fols. 72-73v); O intemerata (fols. 73v-75); Suffrages (fols. 75-81); Passion of Christ according to John (fols. 81-85); Additional Prayers (fols. 86-87v).
Decoration: 12 large miniatures, 24 small miniatures, 159 full-page inhabited foliate borders.
Musical notation: on fol. 22v, 3 4-line staves with musical notation on the scroll held by the angel in the Annunciation to the Shepherds miniature.
Artist: Master of Phillippe of Guelders and workshop.

Script:

bastarda

Language:

Latin and French

Resources:

Description/Bibliography

Century:

16th century

Genres:

Books of hours

Miniatures (Illuminations)

Inhabited borders