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Book of hours (MS M.83).

Accession number
MS M.83
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.83).
Created
Lyon, France, ca. 1485
Binding
Black morocco with clasp; lettered: Horae.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description
192 leaves (1 column, 14 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 127 x 81 mm
Provenance
Arms in a border (or a chevron azure, on dexter and sinister, two choughs (?) proper beaked and legged gules; in chief two mullets of 5 points azure); Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 40; 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 Lyon (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Lyon, France, ca. 1485.
Decoration: 17 full-page miniatures, 18 small miniatures; French Gothic style.
Artist: Master of Guillaume Lambert.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-20v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 21r-90v: Hours of the Virgin and various prayers -- fols. 91r-95r: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 95v-98v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 99r-118v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 119r-168v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 169r-173v: Prayer to the Virgin, Obsecro te -- fols. 174r-175r: Deus propicius esto -- fols. 175v-189v: Suffrages -- fols. 190r-192v: Salve tremendum caput (in 16th century hand).
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
Century
Classification