Accession number
MS M.159
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.159).
Created
France, ca. 1470.
Binding
English 20th-century brown pigskin by the Hampstead bindery; lettered: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Description
138 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 120 mm
Provenance
Eleonore de Bourbon, comtesse de la Marche (arms at foot of crucifixion on fol. 79, Armagnac quartered with La Marche); Jacques Teilhard, rector at Tirargues (1700); Sotheby's sale (London, Dec. 1, 1896, no. 547) to Karslake; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson before 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin?); written and illuminated in central France, ca. 1470.
Decoration: 7 large miniatures.
Decoration: 7 large miniatures.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
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