Accession number
MS M.311
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.311).
Created
Northern Italy, 1450-1472.
Binding
20th-century purple velvet by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; lettered: Officium - Italian - XV cent.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1907.
Description
174 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 102 x 75 mm
Provenance
Executed in northern Italy for a woman member of the Bichi family (arms on fol. 13r: or, a leopard's head sable, in chief an eagle sable); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Canessa (?) in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in northern Italy between 1450 and 1472.
Decoration: 4 historiated initials, 4 full-page borders with putti, 7 full-page borders with decorative motifs.
Textiles: protective silk curtains before miniatures.
Decoration: 4 historiated initials, 4 full-page borders with putti, 7 full-page borders with decorative motifs.
Textiles: protective silk curtains before miniatures.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Italian
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