Office of the Virgin

Accession number: 
MS M.345
Title: 
Office of the Virgin
Created: 
France, 18th century
Binding: 
18th-century olive morocco by Derome le père, with the device of Louise princesse de Rohan Soubise.
Description: 
196 leaves, bound : paper, ill.; 150 x 100 mm
Notes: 

Ms. of the office of the Virgin, written and illuminated in France in the 18th century (formerly MS M.143).
Decoration: Bust-length portrait of the Virgin Mary in three-quarter profile, with the inscription "Ecce Mater Dei Fons Amoris". Other illumination consists of paintings of birds, insects, plants, and rural landscapes.
Contents: Office of the Virgin and other prayers.

Language: 
Latin, with French
Century: 
Classification: