Accession number:
MS M.271
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Langres, France, 1495-1500.
Binding:
Red morocco, lettered: Heures Anciene MSS.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
129 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 231 x 162 mm
Provenance:
Arms of original owner: azure three bourdons or daggers in pale or and a scallop shell argent on fol. 5 and 70; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Book of hours for the use of Langres (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); calendar in Middle French; written and illuminated in Langres, France, ca. 1495-1500.
Artist: an artist influenced by the Master of Spencer 6.
Decoration: 13 large miniatures, 22 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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