Accession number
MS M.175
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.175).
Created
Rouen, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
English red morocco gilt, ca. 1800.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description
125 leaves (1 column, 26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 150 x 100 mm.
Provenance
Stephen Dowell bookplate (ca. 1870) with traces of earlier labels; Richard Bennett (bought Jan. 31, 1893), his Catalogue, no. 60; 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 Paris; written and illuminated in northern France, perhaps Rouen, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 13 large miniatures, 13 small miniatures, 22 calendar vignettes, 1 historiated border, 2 border vignettes; French Gothic style.
Decoration: 13 large miniatures, 13 small miniatures, 22 calendar vignettes, 1 historiated border, 2 border vignettes; French Gothic style.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-14r: Gospel of John -- fols. 14r-15r: Gospel of Luke -- fols. 15r-16v: Gospel of Matthew -- fols. 16v-17r: Gospel of Mark -- fols. 17v-18r: Prayer, O sorores egregie -- fols. 18v-20v: Blank -- fols. 21r-65v: Hours of the Virgin, Short Hours of the Cross, and Short Hours of the Holy Spirit (intercalated) -- fols. 66r-67v: Obsecro te (first leaf misbound as fol. 89r) -- fols. 68r-71v: O intemerata -- fols. 72r-73v: Prayer, Missus est Gabriel -- fols. 74r-75v: Blank -- fols. 76r-87v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 88r-88v: Blank -- fols. 89r-89v: Obsecro te (misbound first leaf) -- fols. 90r-111r?: Office of the Dead -- fols. 111r-118r: Suffrages (first folio missing) -- fols. 119r-120v: Seven Requests of the Lord -- fols. 121r-125v: Blank.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and Middle French
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