Book of Hours

Accession number: 
MS M.1054
Title: 
Book of Hours
Created: 
Tours, France, ca. 1490-1500.
Binding: 
Late 16th-century Parisian marbled morocco fanfare.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Herzog Fund, 1984.
Description: 
135 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 204 x 120 mm
Provenance: 
Leo S. Olschki, Florence (Inv. no. 42503); Herbert Straus; Therese K. Straus.
Notes: 

Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Tours, France, ca. 1490-1500.
Decoration: 18 large miniatures, 4 added (?) large miniatures in calendar, 4 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations (occupations of the months, signs of the zodiac), 2 historiated initials, full illuminated borders on pages with large miniatures, architectural frames on calendar rectos, numerous illuminated initials and line fillers.

Variant Title: 

Straus hours

Script: 
bastarda
Language: 
Latin
Classification: