Accession number
MS M.944
Object title
Prayer book (MS M.944).
Created
Milan, Italy, ca. 1430.
Binding
19th-century red velvet with silver clasps.
Credit line
Purchased with the generous assistance of Alice Tully in memory of Dr. Edward Graeffe, 1970.
Description
95 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 170 x 120 mm
Provenance
Purchased by H.P. Kraus from a private collector in Milan in 1949; sold by Kraus to Martin Bodmer, Geneva-Cologny; re-purchased by H.P. Kraus from Bodmer ca. 1968; purchased from Kraus with the generous assistance of Miss Alice Tully in memory of Dr. Edward Graeffe in 1970.
Notes
Ms. prayer book; written and illuminated in Milan, Italy, about 1430.
Collation: I4, II8, III9, IV8, V9, VI7, VII9, VIII6, IX5, X4, XI7, XII8, XIII8, XIV3.
The manuscript is written in dark brown ink by one scribe.
The text comprises 47 prayers arranged liturgically and dedicated to various feasts taken from the Temporal and Sanctoral cycles of the church year.
Decoration: 22 full-page miniatures with floral borders, 1 historiated initial, 47 text pages with borders, 46 illuminated initials; at least half of the original miniatures and parts of the texts are missing.
Artist: Michelino (de' Molinari) da Besozzo.
Collation: I4, II8, III9, IV8, V9, VI7, VII9, VIII6, IX5, X4, XI7, XII8, XIII8, XIV3.
The manuscript is written in dark brown ink by one scribe.
The text comprises 47 prayers arranged liturgically and dedicated to various feasts taken from the Temporal and Sanctoral cycles of the church year.
Decoration: 22 full-page miniatures with floral borders, 1 historiated initial, 47 text pages with borders, 46 illuminated initials; at least half of the original miniatures and parts of the texts are missing.
Artist: Michelino (de' Molinari) da Besozzo.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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