Accession number
MS M.1093
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1093).
Created
Rouen, France, ca. 1470.
Binding
French 16th-century olive brown calf, gilt-tooled, oval stamp of the Crucifixion on front panel; Annunciation on back panel; name of owner Jacqueline de la Haye stamped in gold front and back.
Credit line
Gift of Beatrice Bishop Berle, 1993.
Description
178 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 185 x 135 mm
Provenance
According to inscriptions on inside front cover owned by Gilles Vaillant, provost of Beauvais and later fiscal attorney for the tribunals of Beauvais and Gerberoy; his gift (ca. 1580) to his wife Johanne Vaillant; passed to his grandson Gilles Vaillant; given to the latter's wife Jacqueline de la Haye, for whom the binding was made; Nicolas Vaillant, fiscal attorney to Augustin Potier (bishop and count of Beauvais) given to his wife Marguerite du Fay in 1621; Courtlandt F. Bishop (1870-1935); his estate sale (New York, Anderson Galleries, April 1938, lot 1417) to Beatrice Bishop Berle.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); calendar in French; written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1470.
Decoration: 16 large miniatures with full inhabited borders.
Artist: Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Decoration: 16 large miniatures with full inhabited borders.
Artist: Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
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