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Missal (MS M.518).

Accession number
MS M.518
Object title
Missal (MS M.518).
Created
Ferrara, Italy, 1463.
Binding
Formerly in sheep; rebound in red-brown morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1920.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
271 leaves (2 columns, 33 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 245 x 167 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Leo S. Olschki in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. missal for the use of Rome; written and illuminated in Ferrara, Italy, in 1463 (dated in the Easter tables on fol. 7).
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature; 5 historiated initials; 1 historiated border.
Artist: Taddeo Crivelli executed the full-page Crucifixion on fol. 128v.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Classification