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Book of hours (MS M.312).

Accession number
MS M.312
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.312).
Created
Rouen, France, 1470-1480
Binding
Purple velvet by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
141 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 200 x 140 mm
Provenance
Eighteenth-century Italian library shelfmark: C VI 2 13; from the library of Principe Massimo of Rome; sold in Mar. 1882 to Antonio Biagio Licata, Principe di Baucina of Palermo (1832-1893) and by him in England; 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 Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, calendar); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1470-1480.
Decoration: 12 large miniatures, 24 calendar vignettes, 3 historiated initials.
Artist: Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
Classification