Accession number:
MS M.220
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Rouen, France, ca. 1500.
Binding:
Wooden boards and 17th-century French red morocco in the Le Gascon style.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Description:
111 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 140 mm
Provenance:
Owned (16th century) by De La Saussaye and (18th century) by Cremeur de Menou; given (1809) by Mlle. de Rougerie to Pothain de La Saussaye; armorial bookplate of Foucher family (between 1815 and 1848): or a bend, the upper edge engrailled, sable; motto: per ardua gradior; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) through Pearson before 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, calendar); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 15 large miniatures, 5 border historiations.
Artists: late followers of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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