MS Pryce C1: Devotional Luxury

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Title

Description

This elaborately decorated Book of Hours (The Vosper Hours) is a late fifteenth-century manuscript from Langres, France. While many Books of Hours contained materials such as owners' names and hand-written texts and annotations, this manuscript has no distinguishable traces of ownership. The seventeen large miniatures in this Book of Hours are attributed to the Maître du Missal de Troye

Source

MS Pryce C1

Publisher

Spencer Research Library Special Collections, University of Kansas

Date

c. 1460-1470s

Format

235 x 162 mm

Type

Book of Hours

Identifier

Spencer Research Library Special Collections, MS Pryce C1

Items in the MS Pryce C1: Devotional Luxury Collection

MS Pryce C1: Devotional Luxury

This elaborately decorated Book of Hours ("The Vosper Hours") is a late fifteenth-century manuscript from Langres, France. While many Books of Hours contained materials such as owners' names and hand-written texts and annotations, this manuscript has…

MS Pryce C1: Personal Devotion

This particular Book of Hours was likely used for private devotional practice and worship within the confines of its owner's home. While there are no identifying marks or clear indications of the book's original owner, the book's contents suggest…

MS Pryce C1: Devotion in Time

This sumptuous manuscript includes the traditional contents of Books of Hours: the Calendar of Saints, excerpts from the four Gospels, the Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Penitential Psalms, the Hours of the Cross, the Hours of the Holy Spirit, and…