Accession number
MS M.290
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.290).
Created
France, perhaps Paris, Rouen, or Tours, ca. 1520.
Binding
Rose velvet.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
132 leaves (1 column, 29 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 191 x 96 mm
Provenance
Given (ca. 1700) by Madame de Martin de Brésillac, and her daughters Madame de Marion de Brésillac, Madame de Barche de La Courtête and Madame de Ravaing d'Ardos, and their brother the abbé Marion de Brésillac; Quaritch, catalogue 235 (Nov. 1904), no. 121; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in France, perhaps Paris, ca. 1520.
Artists: a late follower of Jean Poyer and the Master of Morgan 219, recently rechristened Maître de la Chronique scandaleuse.
Decoration: 17 large miniatures, 3 small miniatures.
Revised: 2016
Artists: a late follower of Jean Poyer and the Master of Morgan 219, recently rechristened Maître de la Chronique scandaleuse.
Decoration: 17 large miniatures, 3 small miniatures.
Revised: 2016
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fol. 7r: Blank -- fols. 7v-14v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 15r-25r: Hours of the Virgin, Matins and Lauds -- fols. 25v-26r: Short Hours of the Cross, Matins -- fols. 26v-27r: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit, Matins -- fols. 27v-28r: Matins of the Conception of the Virgin Mary -- fols. 28v-53r: Hours of the Virgin, Prime through Compline -- fols. 53v-54v: Blank -- fols. 55r-60r: Penitential Psalms -- fols. 60v-62r: Litany -- fols. 62v-63r: Prayers -- fol. 63v: Hymn to Virgin Mary, Inviolata integra et casta es Maria -- fols. 64r-84r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 84v-94v: Suffrages -- fols. 95r-99r: Prayers to Christ -- fols. 99v-100v: Prayers to Virgin Mary and guardian angel -- fols. 100v-108v: Prayers to Christ -- fols. 108v-130r: Prayers to Virgin Mary -- fols. 130v-134v: Blank.
Script
littera humanistica rotunda
Language
Latin
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