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Book of hours (MS M.510).

Accession number
MS M.510
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.510).
Created
Tours, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
French red morocco, gilt-tooled, fleurdelisée back; in center of upper cover the monogram CFD; on the lower cover the monogram DSD; both surmounted by the French royal crown, ca. 1700; in red morocco slip case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
150 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 130 mm
Provenance
Bound ca. 1700 for a member of the French royal family; Museo Cavaleri, Milan, Italy (bookstamp on fol. 1); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Leo S. Olschki in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Tours (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Tours, France, ca. 1500.
Includes doggerel verse in French at the end of each calendar month.
Decoration: 8 full-page and 9 small miniatures; 22 calendar vignettes; inhabited borders.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
Century
Classification