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Book of hours (MS M.161).

Accession number
MS M.161
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.161).
Created
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1465.
Binding
17th-century black leather with corner fleurons in gold; in blue morocco case lettered: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis - French - Le Mans - 1480-90.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
138 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 130 mm
Provenance
Arms added (ca. 1850) on flyleaf (azure, 3 pyramids of six besants; a chief of the second); Howell Wills sale (London, 1894, no. 717) to Pickering; bought (Feb. 4, 1895) by Richard Bennett; his Catalogue, no. 38; 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 Le Mans (Hours of the Virgin) and Tours (Office of the Dead); calendar in Middle French; written and illuminated in France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1465.
Decoration: 10 miniatures; the first 2 pages have a 17th-century added title and coat of arms.
Artist: unidentified French artist.
Contents
fol. 1r: Blank -- fol. 1v: Coat of Arms (later addition) -- fol. 2r: Title Page (later addition) -- fol. 2v: Blank -- fols. 3r-14v: Calendar (in French) -- fols. 15r-15v: Blank -- fols. 16r-19r: Obsecro te in French (first leaf missing) -- fols. 19r-21r: Gospel of John -- fols. 21r-22r: Suffrage to St. Sebastian (in French) -- fol. 22r: Prayer to the Virgin (in French) -- fol. 22v: La salvation angelique (in a later hand) -- fols. 23r-77r: Hours of the Virgin, with Matins of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit following Lauds of the Virgin -- fol. 77v: Blank -- fols. 78r-78v: Hymn to the Holy Spirit -- fols. 79r-79v: Prayer (in a later hand) -- fols. 80r-99r: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 99v-127r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 127v-138r: Five Prayers of John the Evangelist in honor of the Virgin (in French).
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
Classification