Accession number:
MS M.82
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Belgium, 1440-1449.
Binding:
19th-century English dark blue morocco, blind-tooled.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description:
156 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 220 x 150 mm
Provenance:
Bought Nov. 12, 1896 by Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 75; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Belgium in the 1440s.
Decoration: 12 large miniatures; margins with foliate and floreate ornament throughout; decorated initials throughout; Flemish Gothic style.
Artist: Master of the Ghent Privileges.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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