Accession number
MS M.231
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.231).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1485-1490
Binding
Said to have been bound in honor of the occasion of the Apr. 24, 1558 marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots and the Dauphin (later Francis II); French 16th-century brown morocco, gilt-tooled band design with small fleurs-de-lis, date 1558, and motto: Humilite, Je Prise.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
207 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 171 x 122 mm
Provenance
A. Firmin-Didot sale (Paris, 1879, no. 23) to Fontaine; Prince Liechtenstein Collection; bought (May 29, 1896) by Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 49; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Paris (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); calendar in French; written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1485-1490.
Decoration: 30 miniatures, 5 with historiated borders; 24 calendar illustrations.
Artist: Chief Associate of Maître François (tentatively identified with François le Barbier [or François Le Barbier] fils [son], active ca. 1480-1501; see Mathieu Deldicque, Revue d'art, no. 183/2014-1, p. 9-18).
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
Revised: 2023
Decoration: 30 miniatures, 5 with historiated borders; 24 calendar illustrations.
Artist: Chief Associate of Maître François (tentatively identified with François le Barbier [or François Le Barbier] fils [son], active ca. 1480-1501; see Mathieu Deldicque, Revue d'art, no. 183/2014-1, p. 9-18).
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
Revised: 2023
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
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