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Hours of Claude Molé.

Accession number
MS M.356
Object title
Hours of Claude Molé.
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
Formerly in French 19th-century brown morocco by Marius Michel; re-bound in 2018, plum-colored polished cotton over laminated paperboards with new parchment endleaves added with 19th-century parchment flyleaves bound in; housed in red buckram drop-spine box.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1908.
Description
66 leaves (1 column, 40 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 171 x 108 mm
Provenance
Commissioned by Claude Molé, lord of Villy-le-Maréchal near Troyes (married 1480-d. ca. 1541), arms (gules two stars or, and below, a crescent argent) and motto (Cuider Decoit) on fol. 66; comte Auguste Menche de Loisne Collection (Arras exhibition, 1896, no. 1579); Rodolphe Kann Collection, Paris (Cat. 1907, I, no. 72, facs.); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) through Quaritch in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Artist: Master of Petrarch's Triumphs.
Decoration: 10 large miniatures, 14 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations; arms and motto of patron, Claude Molé.
Revised: 2015
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and French
Century
Classification