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Missal (MS M.374).

Accession number
MS M.374
Object title
Missal (MS M.374).
Created
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1420.
Binding
Italian 15th- or 16th-century brown morocco over heavy boards, blind-tooled bands of floral and interlaced motifs; four metal hinges, clasps missing.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1909.
Description
196 leaves (2 columns, 37 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 327 x 243 mm.
Provenance
Probably written for the Church of San Donatus in Genoa; sent to Belgium for illumination; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Leo Olschki in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. missal for the use of Rome; calendar for Genoa; written and illuminated in Belgium near Bruges, ca. 1420.
Decoration: 12 small miniatures, 4 large and 60 small historiated initials.
The illumination of M.374 is unfinished. The miniature on fol. 137r (Assumption of the Virgin) was not finished.
Artist: Gold Scrolls Group.
Style: Gothic.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Classification