Accession number
MS M.14
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.14).
Created
Florence, Italy, between 1490 and 1499.
Binding
18th-century Italian red morocco, with gilt dentelle.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
226 leaves (1 column, 14 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 155 x 100 mm
Provenance
Made for a member of the Pitti-Taddei de'Gaddi family, arms (azure, a cross flowery and bendy nebuly of six argent and sable) on fol. 20, 61, 104v, 140; Alexander Bain sale (London, July 1, 1901, no. 1084) to Quaritch; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome; written and illuminated in Florence, Italy, between 1490 and 1499.
Artist: Attavante Attavanti.
Decoration: 13 full-page miniatures, 8 historiated initials.
Artist: Attavante Attavanti.
Decoration: 13 full-page miniatures, 8 historiated initials.
Script
humanistic script
Language
Latin
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