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Breviary or Book of Hours single leaf (MS M.659).

Accession number
MS M.659
Object title
Breviary or Book of Hours single leaf (MS M.659).
Created
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1500.
Binding
Formerly in full red levant morocco, blind-tooled, by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1926; now matted.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1926.
Description
1 leaf : vellum, ill. ; 183 x 133 mm
Provenance
Frederick Locker-Lampson; his name written at lower part of verso (catalogue, 1886, p. 221); purchased by J. P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1926.
Notes
Ms. breviary or book of hours single leaf; illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1500.
Verso is blank with the name F. Locker written at the bottom.
Artist: Gerard David, or Gerard David and another illuminator, or workshop of Gerard David.
Decoration: one full-page miniature depicting the Virgin and child with female saints.