Accession number
MS G.59
Object title
Book of hours from a psalter-hours (MS G.59).
Created
Artois, Diocese of Arras, France, ca. 1300.
Binding
French 16th-century brown calf, gilt-tooled with instruments of the Passion on each corner and with flowers on the spine, rebacked, brass clasps and catches.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
76 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 148 x 102 mm
Provenance
Celestine convent of Marcoussis, diocese of Paris, sixteenth century; a resident of Beauvais (?), seventeenth century; Cathedral or City Library of Beauvais, 1869 (inventory label, no. 1084); Leo S. Olschki, Florence; C.W. Dyson Perrins; his sale, London, Sotheby's, Nov. 29, 1960, lot 108; purchased there by Maggs Brothers Ltd., London for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. book of hours portion from a psalter-hours; variant of the use of Arras (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in France, probably the diocese of Arras, ca. 1300.
Decoration: 7 large historiated initials, 3 small historiated initials, numerous decorated initials, small animals and birds or grotesques on all pages.
A female owner is depicted kneeling before the Virgin and Child on folio 68 at the beginning of the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin.
The illustrations are comparable in style to another psalter-book from Arras (Paris, BNF, Ms. Latin 1328).
Revised: 2017
Decoration: 7 large historiated initials, 3 small historiated initials, numerous decorated initials, small animals and birds or grotesques on all pages.
A female owner is depicted kneeling before the Virgin and Child on folio 68 at the beginning of the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin.
The illustrations are comparable in style to another psalter-book from Arras (Paris, BNF, Ms. Latin 1328).
Revised: 2017
Script
textura.
Language
Latin and French
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