Accession number
MS M.1143
Object title
Christ in Gethsemane (MS M.1143).
Created
France, probably Tours, ca. 1510-1520.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Endowment Fund, 2005.
Description
1 leaf : vellum, ill. ; 157 x 102 mm
Provenance
Zurich, Koller, 22 Sept. 2004, lot 3270 (one of two miniatures, both catalogued as "French, ca. 1550"; the other miniature, possibly by Jean Poyer, depicts the Raising of Lazarus); London, Sotheby, 5 July 2005, lot 21; purchased by the Morgan Library, 2005.
Notes
Ms. book of hours single leaf; written and illuminated in France (probably Tours), ca. 1510-1520.
Text: (former recto, now verso) Gospel lessons; end of Marc 16:14-20 "et sermonem confirmante sequentibus signis. Deo gratias. Per evangelica dicta deleantur nostra delicta. Credo. Confiteor." (in the middle of the page, blue ink) "Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Johannem".
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature (157 x 102 mm.)
Artist: Master of Claude of France.
Revised: 2016
Text: (former recto, now verso) Gospel lessons; end of Marc 16:14-20 "et sermonem confirmante sequentibus signis. Deo gratias. Per evangelica dicta deleantur nostra delicta. Credo. Confiteor." (in the middle of the page, blue ink) "Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Johannem".
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature (157 x 102 mm.)
Artist: Master of Claude of France.
Revised: 2016
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
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