Accession number
MS M.347
Object title
Pontifical (MS M.347).
Created
France, perhaps Burgundy, ca. 1485.
Binding
Cream silk damask with red, silver, and yellow brocade, Italian (?) 16th century, in blue morocco case, lettered: Pontificale - French c. 1480 - School of Fouquet.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1908.
Description
225 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 137 x 103 mm
Provenance
Written for a bishop or abbott (arms: gules a lion or); belonged ca. 1710 to Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, III, Marquis de Magny, fl. 1731-1757, his arms sable, a lion argent on the engraved ex-libris inside front cover; numbers 34 and 120 in old collections; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1908; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. pontifical for the use of Besançon; written and illuminated in France, perhaps Burgundy, ca. 1485.
Decoration: 11 miniatures, illuminated initials.
Artist: Master of Cardinal de Bourbon.
Decoration: 11 miniatures, illuminated initials.
Artist: Master of Cardinal de Bourbon.
Script
littera bastarda
Language
Latin
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