Accession number
MS M.641
Object title
Mont-Saint-Michel sacramentary.
Created
Mont-Saint-Michel, France, ca. 1060.
Binding
Formerly in red velvet, with gilt edges and gauffered; rebound in 1947 in full purple morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1919.
Description
184 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 286 x 215 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham from Samuel Woodburn on apr. 23, 1844; Earl of Ashburnham Collection (appendix, 1861, p. 102, no. 43); sold in 1897 by H. Yates Thompson (catalogue, 1902, II, p. 125-130, no. 69); his sale (London, Sotheby's, June 3, 1919, lot 1) to Quaritch for J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. sacramentary, for the Roman rite in a Benedictine monastery; written and illuminated at Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey, in Normandy, ca. 1060.
Forty-five leaves from this manuscript are held in the Bibliothèque municipale in Rouen (MS 116).
Musical notation: primitive neume notation of northern France throughout the manuscript.
Decoration: 12 full-page miniatures and decorative panels; 4 half-page miniatures; 11 panels with decorative initials, 7 smaller historiated initials.
Forty-five leaves from this manuscript are held in the Bibliothèque municipale in Rouen (MS 116).
Musical notation: primitive neume notation of northern France throughout the manuscript.
Decoration: 12 full-page miniatures and decorative panels; 4 half-page miniatures; 11 panels with decorative initials, 7 smaller historiated initials.
Script
Caroline book minuscule
Language
Latin
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