Record ID:
76890
Accession number:
MS H.4
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
France, perhaps Reims, 1450-1475.
Binding:
Perhaps late 15th-century blind-tooled brown leather, gauffered with painted fleur-de-lis in lozenges.
Credit:
Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description:
111 leaves (1 column, 18 and 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 187 x 134 mm
Provenance:
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1962.
Notes:
Book of hours for the use of Reims (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, calendar); written and illuminated in France, perhaps Reims, in the third quarter of the 15th century.
Decoration: 4 miniatures, illuminated initials, and borders; French Gothic style.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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