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Accession number: 
MS M.512
Title: 
Lectionary
Created: 
Reims, France, ca. 1325.
Binding: 
French or Belgian 18th-century red morocco with gilt dentelle pattern tooling, flowered and gilt end papers with pomegranate design; lettered: Livre d'Evangil. Binding is dateable after 1742 from the watermark of the flyleaf.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description: 
158 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 260 x 170 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Leo S. Olschki in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms. lectionary for the use of Reims; written and illuminated in Reims, France, ca. 1325.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature, 1 small marginal drawing.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin
Resources: 
Description/Bibliography
Century: 
14th century
Genres: 
Lectionaries
Illuminated manuscripts
Miniatures (Illuminations)
Vellum (parchment)
Textura
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Manuscript
Department: 
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts