Accession number
MS M.357
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.357).
Created
Belgium, possibly Tournai, ca. 1440.
Binding
Original stamped-leather binding signed by Ia. Poulle, who has been identified with a Jean or Jacques Pouille, recorded as a binder in Tournai in 1445.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
335 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 200 x 140 mm
Provenance
Owned ca. 1600 by Jerome De Winghe, canon at Tournai; E.H. Lawrence sale (London, 1892, no. 287) to Quaritch; Lucien Dlamarre (Théophile Belin catalogue, 1909, no. 16, 4 plates); Sotheby's sale (London, May 6, 1909, lot 12, plate) to Quaritch; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Quaritch in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin), calendar for Tournai; written and illuminated in Belgium, perhaps in Tournai, ca. 1440.
Decoration: 1 full-page, 29 half-page miniatures.
Artist: a follower of the Master of Guillebert de Mets.
Decoration: 1 full-page, 29 half-page miniatures.
Artist: a follower of the Master of Guillebert de Mets.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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