Accession number
MS M.380
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.380).
Created
Tours, France, ca. 1490.
Binding
18th century French red morocco gilt with black leather diamond-shaped lozenge inlaid as centerpiece, in brown morocco case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey, lettered: Horae ad usum Parisiensis-French-Tours 1490-1500.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
129 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 166 x 113 mm
Provenance
Owned (ca. 1860?) by Etienne-Marie-Olivier Teillard d'Ery (château de Gondole, Le Cendre, Puy-de-Dôme), according to ex libris inscription pasted in front cover; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Quaritch in Feb. 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for use of Paris (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); calendar in French; written and illuminated in Tours, France, ca. 1490.
Decoration: 16 large miniatures, 2 small miniatures, 25 historiated initials, 12 calendar illustrations.
Artist: workshop of Jean Bourdichon.
Revised: 2015
Decoration: 16 large miniatures, 2 small miniatures, 25 historiated initials, 12 calendar illustrations.
Artist: workshop of Jean Bourdichon.
Revised: 2015
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and French
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