Accession number
MS M.1030
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1030).
Created
France, possibly Tours, ca. 1540.
Binding
17th-century black sharkskin with shell-shaped silver clasps, one lost.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 1981.
Description
149 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 69 x 47 mm
Provenance
Jacques Rosenthal, Munich; C.W. Dyson Perrins (Ms. 93); his sale, London, Sotheby's Dec. 9, 1959, lot 39; H.P. Kraus, New York; Arthur A. Houghton; his sale, London, Christie's, Dec. 5, 1979, lot 230; Elaine and Alexandre P. Rosenberg.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in France, possibly Tours, ca. 1540.
Decoration: 6 full-page miniatures, 12 calendar illustrations (signs of the zodiac), full borders on miniature pages.
Artist: attributed to Agostino Decio.
Roger Wieck attributes the illumination to Agostino Decio in Painted Prayers (1997), p. 34, no. 20.
Decoration: 6 full-page miniatures, 12 calendar illustrations (signs of the zodiac), full borders on miniature pages.
Artist: attributed to Agostino Decio.
Roger Wieck attributes the illumination to Agostino Decio in Painted Prayers (1997), p. 34, no. 20.
Script
humanistica rotunda
Language
Latin
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