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Book of hours (MS M.220).

Accession number
MS M.220
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.220).
Created
Rouen, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
Wooden boards and 17th-century French red morocco in the Le Gascon style.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Description
111 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 140 mm
Provenance
Owned (16th century) by De La Saussaye and (18th century) by Cremeur de Menou; given (1809) by Mlle. de Rougerie to Pothain de La Saussaye; armorial bookplate of Foucher family (between 1815 and 1848): or a bend, the upper edge engrailled, sable; motto: per ardua gradior; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) through Pearson before 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, calendar); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 15 large miniatures, 5 border historiations.
Artists: late followers of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-23v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 24r-65v: Hours of the Virgin, intercalated with Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 66r-80v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 81r-104r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 104v-111r: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin (in French) -- fol. 111v: Blank.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
Classification