Accession number:
MS G.75
Title:
Breviary
Created:
Umbria, Italy, 1300-1323.
Binding:
14th-century brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled with a central cross and border of ornamental stamps, two leather thongs with metal clasps, spine rebacked and upper corners repaired.
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
363 leaves (2 columns, 30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 232 x 165 mm
Provenance:
Camaldolese Monastery of Fonte Avellana, Umbria (Ms. 13 bis); purchased shortly before Dec. 1962 from H.P. Kraus, New York for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes:
Breviary for the use of the Hermits of the Holy Cross of Fonte Avellana; written and illuminated in Umbria, Italy, possibly at Fonte Avellana, 1300-1323.
Decoration: 26 historiated initials.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin;
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