Accession number:
MS M.161
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1465.
Binding:
17th-century black leather with corner fleurons in gold; in blue morocco case lettered: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis - French - Le Mans - 1480-90.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description:
138 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 130 mm
Provenance:
Arms added (ca. 1850) on flyleaf (azure, 3 pyramids of six besants; a chief of the second); Howell Wills sale (London, 1894, no. 717) to Pickering; bought (Feb. 4, 1895) by Richard Bennett; his Catalogue, no. 38; 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 Le Mans (Hours of the Virgin) and Tours (Office of the Dead); calendar in Middle French; written and illuminated in France, perhaps Tours, ca. 1465.
Decoration: 10 miniatures; the first 2 pages have a 17th-century added title and coat of arms.
Artist: unidentified French artist.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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