Accession number:
MS M.373
Title:
Breviary
Created:
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1315-1325.
Binding:
Previously in red velvet; replaced in 1925 by Marguerite Duprez Lahey with full brown morocco, blind tooled, a band of interlaced motifs forming a panel stamped in center with Morgan arms; heavy rose-brown end papers, also used for outsides of chemise, in slip case.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description:
306 leaves (2 columns, 34 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 250 x 180 mm
Provenance:
Erased arms in lower margin of several pages; executed for presentation to the Carmelite Church of Santa Maria in Porto; sold in 1863 by Boone to Dr. John Gott (the Right Rev. John Gott, Lord Bishop of Truro); Southeran, Bibliotheca pretiosa, 1907, cat. no. 302; Gott sale (London, Sotheby's, 20 March 1908, no. 40) to Thomas; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Leo S. Olschki in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. breviary for the use of Ravenna, calendar for the Carmelite Church of Santa Maria in Porto; written and illuminated in Bologna, Italy, ca. 1315-1325.
Musical notation: 4-line staves, square notes.
Decoration: 1 small miniature, 9 large historiated initials, 188 small historiated initials, 147 marginal figures, 10 bas-de-page medallions, marginal vinescroll accompanies initials.
Artist: various artists from the workshop that executed a Bible in Bologna (Collegio di Spagna. MS 2)--Cf. PML files.
Script:
Italian textura
Language:
Latin
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