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Book of hours (MS M.117).

Accession number
MS M.117
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.117).
Created
Brittany, France, ca. 1440-1450 ; Paris, France, ca. 1500-1510.
Binding
16th-century brown calf.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1906.
Description
234 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 222 x 167 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1906; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for Sarum use (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and partially illuminated in Brittany, France, ca. 1440-1450, and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1500-1510.
This manuscript was illuminated in two campaigns: in Brittany, ca. 1440-1450, and in Paris, ca. 1500-1510. Note that "from the original campaign of illumination only one much repainted miniature, the Virgo lactans [fol. 19v] and many decorated borders remain. These, like the litany, suggest that the manuscript was begun in Brittany about 1440, presumably for an English patron. Perhaps because of the withdrawal of the English occupying forces, the illumination was left unfinished for over fifty years and was only taken up again around 1500 or shortly after."--Cf. Last flowering, p. 71.
Decoration: 29 large miniatures, 17 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations.
Artist: Master of Philippe of Guelders and a collaborator.
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fols. 7r-13v: Prayers -- fols. 14r-19r: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 19v-22r: Obsecro te -- fols. 22v-25v: O intemerata -- fols. 26r-27v: Passion according to John -- fols. 28r-90v: Hours of the Virgin interspersed with Short Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, and Suffrages -- fols. 91r-106r: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 106v-142v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 143r-174v: Long Hours of the Cross (Compline missing) -- fols. 175r-234v: Various prayers (incomplete).
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle English
Classification