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Book of hours (MS M.1054).

Accession number
MS M.1054
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1054).
Created
Tours, France, ca. 1490-1500.
Binding
Late 16th-century Parisian marbled morocco fanfare.
Credit line
Purchased on the Herzog Fund, 1984.
Description
135 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 204 x 120 mm
Provenance
Leo S. Olschki, Florence (Inv. no. 42503); Herbert Straus; Therese K. Straus.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Tours, France, ca. 1490-1500.
Decoration: 18 large miniatures, 4 added (?) large miniatures in calendar, 4 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations (occupations of the months, signs of the zodiac), 2 historiated initials, full illuminated borders on pages with large miniatures, architectural frames on calendar rectos, numerous illuminated initials and line fillers.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-19v: Gospel sequences -- fols. 20r-23r: Obsecro te -- fols. 23r-26r: O intemerata -- fol. 26v: Blank -- fols. 27r-81r: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 81v-84r: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 84v-87r: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 87v: Blank -- fols. 88r-105v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 106-131v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 132r-135r: Suffrages -- fols. 135v: Blank.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
Classification