Accession number
MS M.262
Object title
Epistle lectionary (MS M.262).
Display Date
late 17th or early 18th century.
Created
France, perhaps Paris, late 17th or early 18th century.
Binding
Original rose velvet with silver cloth doublures and silver gilt corners, hinges and headbands with fleur-de-lis motif; in red box lettered: The Manuscript Service Book.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
24 leaves (1 column, 30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 340 x 220 mm
Provenance
Executed for the use of a Dauphin of France, probably Louis, duc de Bourgogne (his arms on fol. 1), perhaps intended for use in the Church of St. Lazare; Constant Leber (after 1840; catalogue IV, 1852, p. 6-7, no. 20); his sale (Paris, Nov. 3, 1860, no. 27) to Potier; C.H.T. Hawkins; his sale (London, Christie's, July 5, 1905, no. 137) to Pearson; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. epistle lectionary; written and illuminated in France, perhaps Paris, late 17th or early 18th century.
Decoration: 8 full-page flower paintings, 4 half-page flower paintings; 11 headpieces, each with a historiated vignette, 25 historiated initials, numerous decorative tailpieces and bas-de-page compositions.
Artists: attribed to Jean Baptist Monnoyer (the 8 full-page flower paintings) and Charles de la Fosse (the remaining decoration).
Decoration: 8 full-page flower paintings, 4 half-page flower paintings; 11 headpieces, each with a historiated vignette, 25 historiated initials, numerous decorative tailpieces and bas-de-page compositions.
Artists: attribed to Jean Baptist Monnoyer (the 8 full-page flower paintings) and Charles de la Fosse (the remaining decoration).
Script
Roman letters
Language
Latin
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