Record ID:
112381
Accession number:
MS M.379
Title:
Missal
Created:
Foligno, Italy, late 11th or early 12th century.
Binding:
Rebound in 20th-century orange three-quarter morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description:
272 leaves (2 columns, 31 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 380 x 260 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943)
Notes:
Ms. missal, perhaps for Benedictine use; written and illuminated in Foligno, Italy, in the late 11th or early 12th century.
Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures, zoomorphic and interlaced initials throughout.
Script:
Romanesca minuscule
Language:
Latin
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