Accession number
MS M.488
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.488).
Created
Poitiers, France, 1489.
Binding
French 16th-century brown stamped-calf; in blue morocco case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1912.
Description
62 leaves (1 column, 28 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 170 x 120 mm
Provenance
Made for Madeleine Du Puy (died ca. 1507-08), wife of Guy de Chasteignac (ca. 1450-ca. 1505; portrait and arms on fol. 8: impaled, or a lion passant vert, or a lion rampant azure crowned, tongued and clawed gules); owned ca. 1800 by Large Vincent (name signed inside front cover); Sotheby's sale (London, July 27, 1911, lot 105) to E. Parsons for S.N.H. (Sidney Noel Humphreys); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Poitiers (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Poitiers, France, in 1489 (dated by the almanac on fol. 1r).
The text of M.488 is unfinished. The last rubric shows that the manuscript is unfinished.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature, 1 headpiece, 13 small historiated initials.
The text of M.488 is unfinished. The last rubric shows that the manuscript is unfinished.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature, 1 headpiece, 13 small historiated initials.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and Middle French
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