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Book of hours (MS M.380).

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
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and French
Classification