Accession number
MS M.130
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.130).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1480
Binding
French fanfare binding; late-16th century calf with elaborate gold tooling in the style of Clovis Eve.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
137 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 200 x 150 mm
Provenance
Howell Wills sale (London, 1894), no. 829) to Pickering for Richard Bennett, his Catalogue, no. 67; 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 Sens (Hours of the Virgin?); calendar points to Troyes; written and illuminated in France, perhaps Paris, ca. 1480.
Decoration: 13 half-page miniatures, 6 small miniatures.
Decoration: 13 half-page miniatures, 6 small miniatures.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-18v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 19r-19v: Various prayers -- fols. 20r-22v: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 23r-72v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 13r-89v: Penitential Psalms and Litany (first folio missing) -- fols. 90r-94v: Obsecro te -- fols. 9r-131v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 132r-137v: Suffrages (first folio missing).
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
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