Accession number:
MS M.67
Title:
Psalter-Hours
Created:
Bourges, France, or the Loire River Valley, 1455-1460.
Binding:
French brown calf, late 16th century, in cream morocco case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; lettered: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis-French, Paris, C.MCCCCXL.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1905.
Description:
330 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 152 x 110 mm
Provenance:
Remodeled for Etienne II Petit, ca. 1500, his arms: quarterly: azure à la croix pattée et ancrée d'argent accompagnée de trois rochers d'or, et or deux lions léopardés de gueules; owned (18th century) by Françoise Elizabeth Danse (of Beauvais); Beauvais exhibition, 1869, no. 1083; E. Rahir (no. 30399); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Gruel in 1905; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. psalter-hours for the use of Rome; calendar in French; written and illuminated in Bourges, France, or the Loire River Valley, 1455-1460.
Decoration: 15 miniatures with floral borders, 1 of the miniatures a later addition; unusual full-page miniature of the Sacred Relics of the Passion, seemingly added along with 6 following leaves after manuscript was finished.
Artist: Master of Charles of France.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and French
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