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Second Book of Hours of Anne de Montmorency

Heures d'Anne de Montmorency (seconde) — Master of François de Rohan, 1539

An illuminated manuscript on vellum comprising 98 leaves with fourteen full-page and twenty-one smaller miniatures, dated 1539 and created in Paris by the Master of François de Rohan for Anne de Montmorency. This is the second of two Books of Hours the Constable commissioned; the first was produced a decade earlier. The master's distinctive German-influenced landscapes set these miniatures apart from contemporary Parisian work. The manuscript documents a second instance of Montmorency's sustained personal commission of private devotional material and confirms his engagement with the most prestigious illuminators of the French court.

1539Latin·MontmorencyConfirmed

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Book of Hours (Heures du connétable) of Anne de Montmorency

Heures du connétable Anne de Montmorency

A lavishly illuminated Book of Hours commissioned by Anne de Montmorency (1493–1567), Constable of France and first baron of the realm, now held at the Musée Condé, Chantilly (MS 1476). The manuscript contains fourteen full-page miniatures by at least five artists associated with the Fontainebleau school, including probable attributions to Jean Cousin the Elder and Niccolò dell'Abbate, executed on parchment in a red-velvet binding. It represents Montmorency's orthodox Catholic piety at a moment when his nephews Coligny and Andelot were converting to Protestantism. The volume stands as material evidence of the Constable's personal devotional use and his insistence on traditional Catholic practice for his household.

c. 1549–1553Latin with French rubrics·MontmorencyConfirmed

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