Accession number:
MS M.387
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1460.
Binding:
Rebound in the fall of 1997 by Deborah Evetts into two volumes in cochineal-dyed alum-tanned reversed calf; previously in 19th- or 20th century red velvet over earlier red morocco; two plain, 16h- or 17th century clasps; lettered: Horae - Flemish, c. 1450.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description:
357 leaves (1 column, 15-16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 115 x 82 mm
Provenance:
Executed ca. 1460 at Bruges for a male patron, who was perhaps of the merchant class and a native of Cologne, who is depicted in four miniatures; arms (perhaps of the first owner) on a shield borne by St. Reinoldus on fol. 92v: on a shield quarterly gules and azure, a lion or (Eeskens?, of Malines); Jefferey Whitehead collection (1908); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Léon Gruel in June 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1460.
Decoration: 42 full-page miniatures; retouched in the 16th century.
Artist: Guillaume Vrelant and his workshop.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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