Accession number
MS M.632
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.632).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1520.
Binding
Original rose velvet in rose morocco solander case.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1919.
Description
150 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 165 x 95 mm
Provenance
Owned (ca. 1700) by J. Gee Smyth, clerk, of St. Gregory, Norwich; William Bragge sale (London, 1876, no. 220) to Quaritch for H. Huth (Catalogue, 1880, pp. 726-727); A. H. Huth sale (London, 1913, III, no. 3801) to Quaritch; purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Quaritch in 1919.
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1520.
Artist: a follower of the Master of Petrarch's Triumphs.
Decoration: 7 full-page, 9 large, and 3 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations; executed in grisaille, with touches of gold.
Artist: a follower of the Master of Petrarch's Triumphs.
Decoration: 7 full-page, 9 large, and 3 small miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations; executed in grisaille, with touches of gold.
Script
gothic antiqua and littera humanistica rotunda
Language
Latin
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