Accession number:
MS M.131
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Rouen, France, ca. 1480
Binding:
French red morocco, gold tooled, ca. 1700.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description:
119 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 120 mm
Provenance:
Arms of first owner partly erased (on a chief or six cinquefoils gules?); bought Oct. 26, 1896 by Richard Bennett, his bookplate, his Catalogue, 1906, no. 58; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, calendar, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1480.
Artist: Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures, 35 border historiations, 24 calendar illustrations; kneeling donors (a couple) on fol. 45 before their patron saints, John the Baptist and Anne.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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