Book of Hours
Accession number:
MS M.160
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Paris, France, 1500-1510.
Binding:
19th-century red velvet.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description:
93 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 230 x 150 mm
Provenance:
Richard Bennett, bought Dec. 20, 1893; his Catalogue, no. 70; 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 Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Paris, France, 1500-1510.
Decoration: 2 full-page, 7 large, and 18 small miniatures.
Artist: various hands, including the Chief Associate of Maître François and the Master of Petrarch's Triumphs.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Latin
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