Accession number
MS M.179
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.179).
Created
Paris, France, 1480-1500.
Binding
19th-century (?) green velvet with 2 clasps.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
188 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill ; 180 x 130 mm
Provenance
Said to be commissioned by Louis, Bastard of Bourbon, for his son Charles de Roussillon (some borders with semis of fleurs-de-lis and the knotted bâton of Charles de Roussillon, his initials C.R. in upper border of fol. 145); Condé family, stamps; stamp of a bishop (a lion rampant, in chier two ducks passant) and of the École royale militaire de Sorèze; Prince de Condé, gouveneur de Bourgogne et Bresse; Quaritch, catalogue 369 (1886), no. 35731; catalogue (1890), no. 23; catalogue 118 (1891), no. 534; catalogue 138 (1893), no. 118; catalogue 154 (1895), no. 215; Richard Bennett (bought Apr. 28, 1896); Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 51; 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 Paris (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1480-1500.
Decoration: 6 full-page miniatures, 12 large miniatures, 14 small miniatures, 20 border vignettes, 22 calendar vignettes.
Artist: various hands, among whom is the Chief Associate of Maître François (tentatively identified with François le Barbier [or François Le Barbier] fils [son], active ca. 1480-1501; see Mathieu Deldicque, Revue d'art, no. 183/2014-1, p. 9-18).
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
Decoration: 6 full-page miniatures, 12 large miniatures, 14 small miniatures, 20 border vignettes, 22 calendar vignettes.
Artist: various hands, among whom is the Chief Associate of Maître François (tentatively identified with François le Barbier [or François Le Barbier] fils [son], active ca. 1480-1501; see Mathieu Deldicque, Revue d'art, no. 183/2014-1, p. 9-18).
The artist Franç̧ois le Barbier [père] had a son François le Barbier [fils] who took over his father's atelier until his own death in 1501. Maître François and his chief associate have been proposed as this father-son team, the son finishing manuscripts begun by his father and following the same compositional schemes. The Master of Jacques de Besançon has also been suggested as the head of this atelier (see François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les enluminures du Louvre: Moyen Âge et Renaissance, Paris, 2011, p. 206).
Contents
fols. 1r-11v Calendar (lacking January) -- fols. 12r-18r: Gospel Sequences -- fol. 18v: Blank -- fols. 19r-23r: Obsecro te -- fols. 23r-27r: O intemerata -- fols. 27v-37v: Pasio secundum Iohannem -- fols. 38r-101r: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 101v-106v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 107r-114r: Short Hours of the Holy Ghost -- fols. 114v-131r: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 131v-180r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 180v-188r: Suffrages -- fol. 188v: Blank.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
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