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Book of hours (MS M.198).

Accession number
MS M.198
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.198).
Created
Amiens, France, ca. 1480.
Binding
French or Belgian 18th century morocco with gold tooling and 2 clasps.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
126 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 110 x 80 mm
Provenance
First owner: Ailly de Sains (?), or desairs, or desalds, or desaids (arms: quarterly, 1-4, gules, bearing an inescutcheon gules a cross or a chief checky of argent and azure; 2-3, gules a bend dexter vaire of azure and argent; crest a demi-hound (?), collared and langued gules, muzzled vert winged or; motto: changier ne veulx); purchased May 18, 1895 by Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 32; 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 Amiens (Hours of the Virgin) and Rome (Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in France, probably Amiens, ca. 1480.
Decoration: 1 full-page illumination of arms on fol. 1v; 37 miniatures.
Script
bastarda.
Language
Latin and Middle French
Century
Classification