Book of Hours
Accession number:
MS M.173
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Rennes, France, ca. 1430.
Binding:
Black levant morocco elaborately tooled in gold by Marguerite Duprez Lahey, 1911; in slip case (formerly bound in red velvet).
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description:
149 leaves (1 column, 13 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 211 x 160 mm.
Provenance:
Catalogue number 2013 written in item; 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. 36; 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 Pol de Léon; written and illuminated in Brittany, France, probably Rennes, ca. 1430.
Decoration: 12 large miniatures surrounded by elaborate borders, kneeling female owner portrait on fol. 16.
Artists: 2 unidentified artists, probably working in Brittany in the second quarter of the 15th century.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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