Accession number
MS M.151
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.151).
Created
Rouen, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
French red morocco, ca. 1810.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
85 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 120 mm
Provenance
Collection of Antoine Moriau, bequeathed in 1760 to the city of Paris; Rev. Thomas Hugo Collection (Leeds exhibition, 1868, no. 589); his sale (London, Aug. 8, 1877, probably no. 591); Howell Wills sale (London, July 11, 1894, no. 716) to Pickering to Richard Bennett; his Catalogue, no. 54; 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 Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, calendar); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 13 large miniatures, 24 calendar vignettes.
Artists: late followers of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Decoration: 13 large miniatures, 24 calendar vignettes.
Artists: late followers of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-13v: Memoria -- fols. 14r-17r: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 17v-19r: Obescro te -- fols. 19v-21v: O intemerata -- fols. 22r-48v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 49r-50v: Hours of the Cross -- fols. 51r-53v: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 54r-63v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 64r-80r: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin (in French) -- fols. 80v-84v: Seven Requests (in French).
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and Middle French
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