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Book of hours (MS M.261).

Accession number
MS M.261
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.261).
Created
Rouen, France, 1495-1503.
Binding
19th-century (?) purple velvet.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Description
103 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 120 mm
Provenance
Stated without grounds to have belonged to Anne de France, daughter of Louis XI; arms (fol. 46v) quarterly: 1-4, gules, three estoilles or (with eight wavy points); 2-3, azure a chevron or, with a crescent argent; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913, possibly from Pearson; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, calendar); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, between 1495 and 1503.
Decoration: 16 full-page miniatures; 7 small miniatures, 6 with full illuminated borders; 24 calendar vignettes.
Artist: Robert Boyvin.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and French
Classification