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Book of hours (MS M.151).

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.
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
Classification