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Book of hours (MS M.129).

Accession number
MS M.129
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.129).
Created
Rouen, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
Dark brown 16th-century French calf, the Crucifixion with St. John and the Virgin, sun, moon and eleven stars tooled on both covers within a medallion; four corner gold stamps on each cover, the name IEHANNE tooled in gold on the front, FORTIN on the back.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description
88 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 120 mm
Provenance
Given (1578) by the widow de Bondis, of Provins, to Le Camus, notary at the Paris Châtelet (see also Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.176); owned by Marguerite Lecamus, wife of Léonor de Saint-Leu, notaire au Châtelet; no. 18 in an old collection; no. 2633 in an old catalogue; William Horatio Crawford Sale (London, 1891, no. 1610) to Robson; resold by Sotheby's (London, Nov. 25, 1891, no. 1031) to Leighton; bought Dec. 1, 1893 by Richard Bennett, his Catalogue, no. 57; 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); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1500.
Artist: late followers of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Decoration: 3 full-page miniatures, 10 large miniatures with historiated border vignettes, 24 calendar illustrations; French Gothic style.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-16r: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 16v-18r: Obsecro te -- fols. 18v-20v: O intemerata -- fols. 21r-48v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 49r-50v: Short Hours of the Cross (missing folio between 48 and 49) -- fols. 51r-52v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 53r-64r: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 64v-82r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 82v-85v: Fifteen Joys (in French) -- fols. 86r-88v: Seven Requests (in French).
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and Middle French
Classification