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.
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
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