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Book of hours (MS M.1135).

Accession number
MS M.1135
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1135).
Created
France, perhaps Bourges, ca. 1522
Binding
20th-century dark red morocco, in a red half-morocco drop-box.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Endowment Fund, 2003.
Description
214 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 149 x 97 mm
Provenance
Gilbert de Maubruny and Marie de La Mothe (d. 1556); André Hachette (1873-1945); sold in Paris, 16 Dec. 1953, lot 25; London, Sotheby's, 8 July 1970, lot 97; London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1984, lot 87; Heribert Tenschert (Cat. 16, 1985, no. 27); H.P. Kraus sale (New York, Sotheby's December 4 & 5, 2003, lot 326); purchased on the Fellows Endowment Fund, 2003.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome; written and illuminated in Bourges [?], France, ca. 1522. The calendar, which includes several Breton elements, is preceded by a table of Golden Numbers for the years 1522-1536.
Decoration: 12 near full-page grisaille miniatures drawn in sepia, pen and wash, and heightened in white; 7 quarter-page grisaille miniatures drawn in sepia, pen and wash and highlighted in white, four of which are on blue grounds.
Artist: Stylistically related to the 1520s Hours Workshop as well as the "Master of the Doheny Hours" and his workshop.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and French
Classification