Accession number
MS M.187
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.187).
Created
Ferrara, Italy, ca. 1480.
Binding
Italian 18th-century brown morocco gilt, in maroon morocco case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
162 leaves (1 column, 13 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 140 x 100 mm
Provenance
Richard Bennett (bought Jan. 9, 1894), his Catalogue, no. 93; 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 Rome (?); calendar for Franciscan use at Milan; written and illuminated in Ferrara, Italy, ca. 1480.
Decoration: 3 large and 9 small historiated initials, 54 border historiations set in medallions and rectangles.
Decoration: 3 large and 9 small historiated initials, 54 border historiations set in medallions and rectangles.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-79v: Hours of the Virgin (first leaf missing), with Psalms of Wednesday and Friday (fols. 63v-68r), Saturday Psalms (68r-76v) and Advent Hours (76v-79v) -- fols. 80r-103v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 104r-108v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 109r: Prayer for the Holy Shroud (17th century) -- fols. 109v-111v: Blank -- fols. 112r-159r: Office of the Dead -- fol. 159v: Blank -- fols. 160r-162r: Mass of the Virgin (first leaf missing).
Script
Italian rotunda
Language
Latin
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