Book of Hours
Ms. book of hours, Rome use (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Paris, France, early 16th century.
Texts: Additional prayers (fols 3-4v); Calendar (fols 5-7v); Gospel readings (fols. 8-10v); Hours of the Virgin (fols. 11-40v); Hours of the Holy Cross (fols. 41-42v); Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 43-44v); Penitential Psalms (fols. 45-50); Litany, Petitions, Psalm 69 (fols. 50-53v); Office of the Dead (fols. 54-71v); Obsecro te (fols. 72-73v); O intemerata (fols. 73v-75); Suffrages (fols. 75-81); Passion of Christ according to John (fols. 81-85); Additional Prayers (fols. 86-87v).
Decoration: 12 large miniatures, 24 small miniatures, 159 full-page inhabited foliate borders.
Musical notation: on fol. 22v, 3 4-line staves with musical notation on the scroll held by the angel in the Annunciation to the Shepherds miniature.
Artist: Master of Phillippe of Guelders and workshop.