Accession number
MS M.131
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.131).
Created
Rouen, France, ca. 1480
Binding
French red morocco, gold tooled, ca. 1700.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
119 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 120 mm
Provenance
Arms of first owner partly erased (on a chief or six cinquefoils gules?); bought Oct. 26, 1896 by Richard Bennett, his bookplate, his Catalogue, 1906, no. 58; 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, calendar, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1480.
Artist: Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures, 35 border historiations, 24 calendar illustrations; kneeling donors (a couple) on fol. 45 before their patron saints, John the Baptist and Anne.
Artist: Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures, 35 border historiations, 24 calendar illustrations; kneeling donors (a couple) on fol. 45 before their patron saints, John the Baptist and Anne.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-17v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 18r-20v: Obsecro te -- fols. 21r-24r: O intemerata -- fol. 24v: Blank -- fols. 25r-66v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 67r-69v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 70r-72v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 73r-87v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 88r-110v: Office of the Dead (Lacking first leaf) -- fols. 111r-116r: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin -- fols. 116r-119r: Seven Requests of the Lord.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and Middle French
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