Book of Hours
Accession number:
MS M.137
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Rouen, France, 1470-1480
Binding:
19th-century brown mosaic morocco, red morocco doublure.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description:
135 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 130 mm
Provenance:
Bought Jan. 24, 1893 by Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 63; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, calendar, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, 1470-1480.
Decoration: 14 large miniatures with inhabited borders; French Gothic style.
Artist: Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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