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Book of hours (MS M.363).

Accession number
MS M.363
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.363).
Created
Bruges, Belgium, between 1500 and 1526.
Binding
19th-century Dutch or Polish green velvet with simple silver gilt cross inlaid on upper cover; in green cloth slipcase.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
195 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 130 x 100 mm
Provenance
Owned in the 19th century by Stanislaus Kossecki in Warsaw, Poland (see Wiktor Wittyg, Ex-libris 'y bibliotek polskich XVI-XX wieku (Warsaw 1907), p. 133-134); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Leo S. Olschki in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); calendar for Utrecht; written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium; folios 1v-12v can be dated between 1500 and 1526; folios 2r-13r can be dated to ca. 1526 (see Time in the Medieval World, p. 9, 22).
Decoration: 15 full-page miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations and zodiacal signs, 15 decorated and historiated borders, 1 historiated initial.
Artist: illuminated by the same workshop responsible for Modena, Bib. Estense MS 115 and Utrecht, Archiepiscopal Museum inv. no. 11 (dated 1525); another manuscript in the Library of Congress (Rosenwald Collection MS 29) has related figures and compositions.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Classification