Accession number
MS H.4
Object title
Book of hours (MS H.4).
Created
France, perhaps Reims, 1450-1475.
Binding
Perhaps late 15th-century blind-tooled brown leather, gauffered with painted fleur-de-lis in lozenges.
Credit line
Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
111 leaves (1 column, 18 and 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 187 x 134 mm
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1962.
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Reims (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, calendar); written and illuminated in France, perhaps Reims, in the third quarter of the 15th century.
Decoration: 4 miniatures, illuminated initials, and borders; French Gothic style.
Decoration: 4 miniatures, illuminated initials, and borders; French Gothic style.
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fol. 7r: Blank -- fols. 7v-39v: Hours of the Virgin (begins and ends imperfectly; miniatures for Lauds, Terce, Nones, and Compline are lacking) -- fols. 40r-41v: Stabat Mater -- fols. 42r-52v: Penitential Psalms and Litany (miniature lacking) -- fols. 53r-78v: Office of the Dead (miniature lacking) -- fols. 79r-84v: Joys of the Virgin and Seven Prayers of Gregory, in French (begins imperfectly; miniature lacking?) -- fols. 85r-87v: Hours of the Cross (miniature lacking?) -- fols. 87v-111r: Seven Verses of Bernard and various prayers -- fol. 111v: Blank.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
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