Accession number
MS M.174
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.174).
Created
Rouen, France, early 16th century
Binding
French red morocco gilt, ca. 1810.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description
88 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 120 mm
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, London, March 19, 1896, no. 409) to Pickering for Richard Bennett, his Catalogue, no. 62; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; 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, early 16th century.
Decoration: 14 large miniatures, 17 border historiations, 24 calendar vignettes; French Gothic style.
Artists: Various Rouenais artists, one from the workshop of the Master of Morgan 85, another closer to the workshop of the Master of Morgan 96.
In 1982, Plummer identified the Master of Morgan 96 and the Master of Morgan 366 (cf. his Last flowering). In 1993, Avril and Reynaud renamed the Master of Morgan 96 and the Master of Morgan 366 as a single artist or workshop named Le Maître de Jean Charpentier (cf. Les manuscripts à peintures en France, 1440-1520). In 2004, Roger S. Wieck disputed this blending of the Masters of Morgan 96 and 366 into a single entity, and continued to support the distinction between the Master of Morgan 96 and the Master of Morgan 366 (cf. "Post Poyet" in Excavating the medieval image, p. 252-253).
Decoration: 14 large miniatures, 17 border historiations, 24 calendar vignettes; French Gothic style.
Artists: Various Rouenais artists, one from the workshop of the Master of Morgan 85, another closer to the workshop of the Master of Morgan 96.
In 1982, Plummer identified the Master of Morgan 96 and the Master of Morgan 366 (cf. his Last flowering). In 1993, Avril and Reynaud renamed the Master of Morgan 96 and the Master of Morgan 366 as a single artist or workshop named Le Maître de Jean Charpentier (cf. Les manuscripts à peintures en France, 1440-1520). In 2004, Roger S. Wieck disputed this blending of the Masters of Morgan 96 and 366 into a single entity, and continued to support the distinction between the Master of Morgan 96 and the Master of Morgan 366 (cf. "Post Poyet" in Excavating the medieval image, p. 252-253).
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-16r: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 16v-18r: Obsecro te -- fols. 18v-21r: O intemerata -- fol. 21v: Miniature -- fols. 21v-49v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 50r-51v: Short Hours of the Cross (first leaf gone) -- fols. 52r-53v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 54r-64v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 65r-82v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 83r-86v: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin -- fols. 87r-88v: Seven Requests of the Lord.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and Middle French
Resources
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