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Book of hours (MS M.169).

Accession number
MS M.169
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.169).
Created
Rouen, France, ca. 1470.
Binding
French 16th-century cream leather with fleur-de-lis; in center of covers, medallions of the Crucifixion; two silver clasps with initials "J.D.K." or "T.D.K." on the lower.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
138 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 130 mm
Provenance
Howell Wills sale (London, 1894, no. 911) to Pickering; purchased (Feb. 4, 1895) by Richard Bennett; his Catalogue, no. 61; 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, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1470.
Decoration: 13 large miniatures.
Artist: influenced by the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar (in French) -- fols. 13r-15v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 16r-19v: Obsecro te -- fols. 19v-23v: O intemerata -- fols. 24r-75v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 76r-92v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 93r-95v: Hours of the Cross (first folio missing) -- fols. 96r-98v: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 99r-128v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 129r-134v: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin (in French) -- fols. 135r-138v: Seven Requests (in French).
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
Century
Classification