Accession number
MS M.251
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.251).
Created
Tournai, Belgium, ca. 1470.
Binding
Italian 18th-century red morocco in brown case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
230 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 100 x 70 mm
Provenance
18th century inscription of ownership on verso of first flyleaf; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Lowengard on Feb. 26, 1907; ; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Tournai, Belgium, ca. 1470.
Artist: a follower of Guillaume Vrelant.
Decoration: 13 half-page miniatures, 6 historiated initials.
Artist: a follower of Guillaume Vrelant.
Decoration: 13 half-page miniatures, 6 historiated initials.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fol. 13r: Blank -- fols. 13v-23v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fol. 24r: Blank -- fols. 24v-30v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fol. 31r: Blank -- fols. 31v-46v: Mass of the Virgin -- fol. 47r: Blank -- fols. 47v-129v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 130r: Blank -- fols. 130v-141r: Advent Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 141v-169v: Penitential Psalms, Litany, Petitions, and Collects -- fol. 170r: Blank -- fols. 170v-228r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 228v-229v: Blank.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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