Accession number
MS G.4
Object title
Book of hours (MS G.4).
Created
Rouen or Orléans, France, last quarter of 15th century.
Binding
Red velvet; gilt and gauffered edges from earlier binding.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
148 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 187 x 125 mm
Provenance
Unidentified original (?) owner or owners; their initials M (originally G?) and D joined by a love knot on silver escutcheon on 29v; Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, Seventh Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme; Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, Eighth Duke of Newcastle-under Lyme and Earl of Lincoln; his sale, London, Sotheby's, Dec. 6, 1937, lot 950; purchased in Jan. 1940 from William H. Schab, New York for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Orléans (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead) and Rouen (calendar); written and illuminated in Rouen or Orléans, France, last quarter of the 15th century.
Decorations: 14 large miniatures, 2 small miniatures, 3 historiated initials, 24 calendar illustrations; initials "M" and "D" knotted by a cord, placed on a silver shield, on fol. 29v.
Decorations: 14 large miniatures, 2 small miniatures, 3 historiated initials, 24 calendar illustrations; initials "M" and "D" knotted by a cord, placed on a silver shield, on fol. 29v.
Contents
fols. 1r-1v: Blank -- fols. 2r-13v: Calendar -- fols. 14r-18r: Mass of the Virgin -- fols. 18r-22r: Gospel sequences -- fols. 22r-25r: Prayer to the Virgin, Obsecro te -- fols. 25r-28r: Prayer to the Virgin, O intemerata -- fols. 28v-29v: Suffrages -- fols. 30r-74v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 75r-75v: Blank -- fols. 76r-91r: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fol. 91v: Blank -- fols. 92r-97v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 98r-102r: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 102v-140r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 140v-144v: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin -- fols. 144v-147r: Seven Requests of the Lord -- fols. 147v-148v: Blank.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
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