Accession number
MS M.486
Object title
Prayer roll (MS M.486).
Created
England, last quarter of the 15th century
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
1 roll : vellum, ill. ; 2062 x 155 mm
Provenance
Written and decorated for the wife of William Flemyng (Fleming), who was alive in 1474 (quarterly Lancaster: argent two fesses gules, a lion passant gardant or on a canton of the last; and Fleming: argent fretty gules); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in northwest England, last quarter of the 15th century.
Consists of three joined pieces.
Decoration: colored pen and ink drawing of kneeling female owner, arms; continuous decorated border all along left hand side with geometric patterns.
Rolled in a red velvet tube.
Script
bastarda
Language
Middle English and Latin
Resources
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