Accession number
MS M.778
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.778).
Created
Bruges, Belgium, between 1460 and 1470.
Binding
Late 18th-century dark red morocco, gold-tooled; enclosed in cardboard box covered with a dice patterned pink and white paper.
Credit line
Purchased in 1932.
Description
231 leaves (1 column, 14 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 48 x 34 mm
Provenance
Albert Figdor, Vienna (no. 665; on case the no. F.22); purchased for the Pierpont Morgan Library from G. Hess in Munich in Aug. 1932.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome; written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1460-1470.
One of the smallest complete illuminated manuscripts known--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 13 grisaille miniatures.
Artist: the workshop of Guillaume Vrelant.
One of the smallest complete illuminated manuscripts known--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 13 grisaille miniatures.
Artist: the workshop of Guillaume Vrelant.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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