Accession number
MS M.618
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.618).
Created
Paris, France, between 1505 and 1510.
Binding
Previously in French 17th-century red morocco gilt; doublures and fly-leaves of red and gray marbled paper; enclosed in a tan morocco solander case tooled on back in gold and with inlays of black and gray levant morocco and the repeated initials M.A., by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; replaced with modern buckram clamshell binding, July, 2001.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1906.
Description
94 leaves (1 column, 26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; c179 x 115 mm
Provenance
Arms in a miniature: or, a lion issuant gules; unknown patron's initials AM and mottos (tardif le pert, ardy le gaigne, sourse de joye, à cueurs amans, vigilanti nil dificile) in many borders; at the end (fol. 93v), a roundel 'je porte une M'; Charles Lormier sale (Paris, 1901, I, no. 28) to Chamonal for Bouasse-Lebel; Théophile Belin, Catalogue 272 (Dec. 1902); purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Belin in 1906; (according to an unconfirmed note on final flyleaf it was brought by him from London in 1913); in the Pierpont Morgan Library accession book, however, the manuscript is recorded in 1914).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1505-1510.
Decoration: 8 large miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations, 27 border historiations; the manuscript is noted for the very inventive border designs and shapes in a limited palette of brown, white, black, and gold.
Artist: Master of Petrarch's Triumphs.
Revised: 2015
Decoration: 8 large miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations, 27 border historiations; the manuscript is noted for the very inventive border designs and shapes in a limited palette of brown, white, black, and gold.
Artist: Master of Petrarch's Triumphs.
Revised: 2015
Script
gothic antiqua
Language
Latin
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