Accession number
MS M.512
Object title
Lectionary (MS M.512).
Created
Reims, France, ca. 1325.
Binding
French or Belgian 18th-century red morocco with gilt dentelle pattern tooling, flowered and gilt end papers with pomegranate design; lettered: Livre d'Evangil. Binding is dateable after 1742 from the watermark of the flyleaf.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
158 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 260 x 170 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Leo S. Olschki in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. lectionary for the use of Reims; written and illuminated in Reims, France, ca. 1325.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature, 1 small marginal drawing.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature, 1 small marginal drawing.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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