Accession number
MS M.271
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.271).
Created
Langres, France, 1495-1500.
Binding
Red morocco, lettered: Heures Anciene MSS.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
129 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 231 x 162 mm
Provenance
Arms of original owner: azure three bourdons or daggers in pale or and a scallop shell argent on fol. 5 and 70; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Langres (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); calendar in Middle French; written and illuminated in Langres, France, ca. 1495-1500.
Artist: an artist influenced by the Master of Spencer 6.
Decoration: 13 large miniatures, 22 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations.
Artist: an artist influenced by the Master of Spencer 6.
Decoration: 13 large miniatures, 22 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fol. 13r: Blank -- fols. 13v-18v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 19r-56v: Hours of the Virgin (incomplete, lacking end of lauds, beginning of prime, and beginning of terce) -- fols. 57r-57v: Obescro te (beginning only) -- fols. 58r-60v: Hours of the Passion (incomplete, lacking beginning of Matins) -- fols. 61r-64r: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fol. 64v: Blank -- fols. 65r-74v: Seven Penitential Psalms -- fols. 75r-79r: Litany -- fols. 79v-80v: Five Prayers -- fols. 81r-108r: Office of the Dead -- fol. 108v: Blank -- fols. 109r-109v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 110r-112v: Obescro te (continuing from fol. 57v) and Salve regina -- fols. 113r-116v: O intemerata and other prayers -- fols. 117r-127v: Suffrages -- fols. 128r-129v: Blank.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
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