Accession number
MS M.314
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.314).
Created
Belgium, possibly Tournai, end of the 14th century.
Binding
17th-century Italian brown calf impressed with the Florentine lily in corners and on back, in blue morocco case lettered: Heures de la Vierge - MS sur velin avec miniatures.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
124 leaves (1 column, 14 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 130 x 90 mm
Provenance
Executed around Tournai for a native of England before 1400; in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries; on fol. 93 the inscription: Ex Libris Giuseppe Rossi; on last flyleaf a presentation inscription dated Naples, 1707; 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 Belgium, perhaps around Tournai, end of the 14th century.
Decoration: 5 full-page miniatures, repainted, probably in England, in the 15th century.
Decoration: 5 full-page miniatures, repainted, probably in England, in the 15th century.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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