Accession number
MS M.168
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.168).
Created
Flanders, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1450
Binding
Formerly: French 20th-century black morocco blind tooled by Champs, lettered on spine: Missale Romanum / MS XV s; full brown vegetable tanned calfskin over laminated paperboards, 2023.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
141, [2] leaves (1 column, 14 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 230 x 160 mm
Provenance
Jeanne d'Oisant (?) early owner; a "well-known collector's" sale (London, Dec. 12, 1893, no. 75) to Southeran; Richard Bennett (bought Dec. 20, 1893); his Catalogue, no. 69; 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 Rome (Hours of the Virgin?); written and illuminated in Flanders, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1450.
Decoration: 4 miniatures; they were cut out of the manuscript, inlaid on modern vellum and rebound out of place as fol. 11-14.
Artist: a master of the Gold Scrolls Group and an artist whose style relates to the early work of Guillaume Vrelant.
Decoration: 4 miniatures; they were cut out of the manuscript, inlaid on modern vellum and rebound out of place as fol. 11-14.
Artist: a master of the Gold Scrolls Group and an artist whose style relates to the early work of Guillaume Vrelant.
Contents
fols. 1r-10v: Calendar (Lacking January and December) -- fol. 11r-11v: Hours of the Virgin (Prime) -- fol. 12r-12v: Hours of the Virgin (None) -- fol. 13r-13v: Suffrage to Apostles Peter and Paul -- fol. 14r-14v: Suffrage to Anthony Abbot the Great -- fols. 15r-17v: Gospel Sequences (Incomplete) -- fols. 18r-21v: Obsecro te (Incomplete) -- fols. 22r-25v: Prayer to the Virgin (Incomplete) -- fols. 26r-26v: Blank -- fols. 27r-90r: Hours of the Virgin (Incomplete) -- fols. 90r-102v: Advent Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 103r-126v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany (Incomplete) -- fols. 127r-133v: Short Hours of the Cross (Incomplete) -- fols. 133r-139r: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit (Incomplete) -- fol. 139v: Blank -- fols. 140r-141r: Suffrages (incomplete) -- fol. 141v: Blank -- fols. 142r-142v: Office of the Dead (two leaves, from another manuscript).
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textura
Language
Latin
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