Book of hours

Accession number: 
MS M.228
Title: 
Book of hours
Created: 
England, ca. 1390.
Binding: 
English 19th-century green morocco; lettered: Horae B. Virginis Sec. Usum Sarum. Ms. Saec. XIV.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description: 
56 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 150 x 110 mm
Provenance: 
J.A. Jackson, ca. 1750 ("Cod. CXXXI", Catalogus librorum, Livorno, 1756, p. 647, no. 131); his library sold to the duc de La Vallière; discarded in one of the latter's duplicate sales (e.g. Paris, 1767, nos. 261-277); J.C.J, ca. 1850; given in 1885 by Mary Ann Bagnall to her daughter Mary Willett; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms. book of hours for the use of Sarum; written and illuminated in England, ca. 1390.
Decoration: three pages with floriated borders.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin
Century: 
Classification: