Accession number
MS M.144
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.144).
Created
Rouen, France, ca. 1490
Binding
French 16th-century Clovis Eve brown morocco richly-gilt with name: Genevieve Planteroze.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Description
91 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 170 x 110 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson before 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1490.
Decoration: 14 large miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations (vignettes), marginal decoration throughout.
Decoration: 14 large miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations (vignettes), marginal decoration throughout.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-21v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 22r-22v: Blank -- fols. 23r-50v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 51r-53r: Hours of the Cross -- fols. 53v-55v: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 56r-56v: Blank -- fols. 57r-67v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 68r-85r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 85v-91r: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin -- fol. 91v: Blank.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and Middle French
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