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Book of hours (MS M.365).

Accession number
MS M.365
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.365).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1500
Binding
French 18th-century green velvet, with crowned arms quarterly of France and Navarre surrounded by a widow's cordelière in wrought silver on the upper cover and the initials M.V. in a silver plaque on covers and clasps.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
145 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 160 x 110 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from J. Martini in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Paris (Hours of the Virgin, calendar); written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 9 full-page miniatures, 15 small miniatures, 12 calendar vignettes.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
Classification