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Book of hours (MS M.1066).

Accession number
MS M.1066
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1066).
Created
Lyon or Amiens, France, ca. 1450-1460.
Binding
Dark blue morocco.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1985.
Description
207 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 179 x 140 mm
Provenance
London, Sotheby's, Dec. 11, 1956, lot 13; Charles J. Sawyer, London; London, Christie's, June 19, 1968, lot 115; Everett and Ann McNear, Chicago, and William and Mary Lloyd, Winnetka, Ill; Everett and Ann McNear, Chicago.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Lyon (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Lyon or Amiens, France, ca. 1450-1460.
The manuscript is undoubtedly for the use of Lyons but the calendar is essentially a Paris calendar with added feastdays for Lyons and Amiens. The miniatures show Amiens influence as well.
Artists: two unidentified illuminators.
Decoration: 15 large miniatures, 2 marginal historiations, full illuminated borders on miniature pages, partial illuminated borders on many text pages, numerous illuminated initials and geometric line fillers; female donor is shown in prayer before the Virgin and Child on fol. 186r.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
Century
Classification