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Book of hours (MS M.921).

Accession number
MS M.921
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.921).
Display Date
1446.
Created
Czech Republic, possibly Prague, 1446.
Binding
18th-century gold tooled red morocco with blue doublures.
Credit line
Gift; Fellows, with funds from the Belle da Costa Greene Fund, 1965.
Description
156 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 150 x 103 mm
Provenance
Given by Johanna, Baroness Rozmital (d. 1475) to her husband George Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-1471); arms of his holdings on fol. 3 (above left: azure, an eagle displayed chequy argent and gules, tongued, clawed, and crowned or [Moravia]; above center: gules, a lion rampant tail forked argent, crowned or [Bohemia] beneath a crown or; above right: or, an eagle displayed sable, on its breast a crescent argent [Silesia]; lower left: barry azure and argent a lion rampant gules, crowned or [unidentified (Upper Lusatia?)]; lower right: argent [?], an ox passant gules [Lower Lusatia]; Stephen Apor, Altorja (Hungary), before 1690; Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London; C.W. Dyson Perrins; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 9 December 1958, lot 24); John R. Fleming, New York; purchased from Fleming as Gift of the Fellows and with funds from the Belle da Costa Greene Fund in 1965.
Notes
Ms. book of hours; written and illuminated in what is now the Czech Republic, possibly in Prague, in 1466, dated in preliminary inscription on fol. 1v.
M.921 has been referred to as the Hours of George of Podiebrad.
Decoration: 6 full-page miniatures, 2 small miniatures with marginal extenders; 2 historiated initials with marginal extenders, 51 illuminated initials, 52 elaborate borders.
Script
textura
Language
Czech
Century
Classification