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Epistle lectionary and commentary on the Apocalypse with anonymous gloss (MS M.68).

Accession number
MS M.68
Object title
Epistle lectionary and commentary on the Apocalypse with anonymous gloss (MS M.68).
Created
Belgium, possibly Bruges, ca. 1470
Binding
20th-century green half-morocco over marbled green papers over boards by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1905.
Description
243 leaves (1 column, 26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 356 x 253 mm
Provenance
Made for Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy (1419-1467) but unfinished at his death (MS is listed in the inventory of his estate made in Lille, 1469); inherited by Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy (1467-1477), who had the book completed, their arms on fol. 1 (quarterly, 1 and 4 azure, 3 fleur-de-lis or within a border compony gules and argent; 2 per pale or, three bendlets azure within a border gules, and sable, a lion rampant or; 3 per pale or, three bendlets azure within a border gules, and argent, a lion rampant gules; en surcoat or, a lion rampant sable); Libraire Damascène Morgand, Paris, Inv. no. 28999bis; Edouard Rahir, Paris; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Rahir in 1905; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. epistle lectionary; written and illuminated in Belgium, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1470.
Texts: Epistle lectionary (fol. 1-153); commentary on the Apocalypse, with anonymous gloss (fol. 157-243).
Decoration: 68 miniatures.
Artist: in the style of Loyset Liédet.
Script
bastarda
Language
French
Century
Classification