Accession number
MS M.285
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.285).
Created
Belgium, perhaps Bruges or Valenciennes, ca. 1470.
Binding
Original 15th-century Flemish blind-stamped brown calf, 2 panels with scrolls containing eagles, over and beneath which the name IHESUS, in black morocco case lettered: Horae - XV siècle
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
268 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 100 x 70 mm
Provenance
Executed for a member of the Sivry or Montiguy-St. Christophe family of Hainaut (arms on fol. 26v, burelé d'argent, et d'azur, the monogram SIVRY and arms of Sivry, Mastain, Waronie and Berlaimont on fol. 27, on fol. 244 the inscription: Loyal et Secret); Léon Gruel (catalogue, 1905, no. 14); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin), calendar for Liège; written and illuminated in Belgium, perhaps in Bruges or Valenciennes, ca. 1470.
Decoration: 38 full-page miniatures, 2 full-page armorials, 17 small miniatures, 12 historiated border medallions, 24 calendar vignettes.
Decoration: 38 full-page miniatures, 2 full-page armorials, 17 small miniatures, 12 historiated border medallions, 24 calendar vignettes.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and French
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