Accession number:
MS M.347
Title:
Pontifical
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:
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.
Script:
littera bastarda
Language:
Latin
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