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Offices ou pratiques de dévotion pour chaque jour de la semaine.

Accession number
MS M.309
Object title
Offices ou pratiques de dévotion pour chaque jour de la semaine.
Display Date
1680.
Created
France, 1680.
Binding
Original 17th-century citron morocco inlaid with red and olive; solid gold tulip on red in center panel, olive doublures tooled in silver; lettered: Office de la semaine; binding is perhaps by Padeloup; in citron case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; lettered: Offices de Devotion.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
105 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : paper and vellum, ill. ; 110 x 70 mm
Provenance
Compiled and written for a lady of the Rochechouart family, possibly Mme. Françoise de Rochechouart-Montemart Montespan; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Gruel in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in France, and dated on the title page in 1680.
Title page is vellum; the remainder of the manuscript is paper.
Decoration: illuminated title page with Rochechouart arms, argent and gules, fascé ondé.
Scribe: in the style of Etienne Damoiselet.
Script
Roman letters
Language
French
Century
Classification