Book of Hours
Accession number:
MS M.157
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
France ca. 1440.
Binding:
Red velvet, in red cloth slipcase.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1906.
Description:
204 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 226 x 163 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from J. Pearson in 1906; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Paris (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); calendar in French, composite, mainly Paris; written and illuminated in France, Anjou or Brittany, ca. 1440.
Decoration: 15 large miniatures, 44 small miniatures, 12 calendar illustrations.
Artist: unknown French artist.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and French
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