Accession number
MS M.1067
Object title
Book of hours fragment (MS M.1067).
Created
France, possibly the Loire River Valley, ca. 1460.
Binding
Gold-tooled brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, Ltd.
Credit line
Purchased on the Director's Fund, 1985.
Description
9 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 200 x 129 mm
Provenance
Virtue and Cahill Library, Portsmouth (no. 8420); London, Christie's, July 5, 1967, lot 166; Everett and Ann McNear, Chicago.
Notes
Ms. nine leaves from a book of hours; written and illuminated in France, possibly the Loire River Valley region, ca. 1460.
According to Eberhard König, these leaves and two others sold at Sotheby's in 1985 (London, Nov. 26, lot 5 [the Pietà from this lot was resold in London, Christie's, 15 Dec. 2021, lot 28]) were cut from a book of hours now in Florence (Bibl. Naz., B.R. 332)--Cf. Twenty-first report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Artist: Master of Adelaide of Savoy, also known as the Master of Poitiers 30.
Decoration: 9 miniatures, 16 marginal roundels, 18 full illuminated borders (2 cropped), 15 illuminated initials, 1 illuminated line filler; French Gothic style.
According to Eberhard König, these leaves and two others sold at Sotheby's in 1985 (London, Nov. 26, lot 5 [the Pietà from this lot was resold in London, Christie's, 15 Dec. 2021, lot 28]) were cut from a book of hours now in Florence (Bibl. Naz., B.R. 332)--Cf. Twenty-first report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Artist: Master of Adelaide of Savoy, also known as the Master of Poitiers 30.
Decoration: 9 miniatures, 16 marginal roundels, 18 full illuminated borders (2 cropped), 15 illuminated initials, 1 illuminated line filler; French Gothic style.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and Middle French
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