Accession number:
MS M.60
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
France, possibly Thérouanne, ca. 1300.
Binding:
Brown morocco blind-tooled by Bauzonnet, lettered: Heures de Nostre Dame.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description:
66 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 130 x 90 mm
Provenance:
Belonged (ca. 1600?) to Anne and Françoise de Saligny; J. Rosenthal (1896); William Morris; sold to Richard Bennett (purchased from Morris's estate, 1897), his Catalogue, no. 31; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of St.-Omer (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in France, possibly Thérouanne, ca. 1300.
Decoration: 34 historiated initials, occasional animal drolleries in the margins.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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