Hours of Cecilia Gonzaga.

Probably made for Cecilia Gonzaga (1451-1472) daughter of Lodovico II and Barbara of Brandenberg; her name in one of the prayers, and Gonzaga arms and devices throughout the text: a white doe with the motto "Bi d(er) graph"; a dove perched on a coiled and smoking tree trunk inscribed: "vrai amor non se cang"; a muzzled and leashed hound; arms on fol. 190 (1 per pale or a stem vert springing from a log, on a canton or two pales gules); other arms on fol. 205 (quarterly 1-4 vairy undy); bought by James Dennistoun of Dennistoun (1803-1855) in Rome in 1838; Bertram, 4th Earl Ashburnham (1797-1878) sale (Sotheby's, May 1, 1899, lot 70) to Quaritch; Lebeufe de Montgermont (1841-1918), (catalogue, 1914, VII, no. 35); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Rahir in 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1913).