Accession number
MS M.330
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.330).
Created
Bourges, France, ca. 1480
Binding
Spanish 18th-century red morocco gilt with foliage corner decoration, pomegranate tooling on spine, in purple morocco case gilt tooled by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
91 leaves (1 column, 28 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 140 x 90 mm
Provenance
Executed for a man of Bourges (owner port. kneeling beside Virgin at Crucifixion on fol. 80); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Lowengard, Paris, in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin), calendar for Bourges; written and illuminated in Bourges, France, ca. 1480.
Decoration: 38 full-page miniatures; an 18th century pen-and-ink drawing of an ornamental frame on fol. 1.
Artist: Jean Colombe and workshop.
Decoration: 38 full-page miniatures; an 18th century pen-and-ink drawing of an ornamental frame on fol. 1.
Artist: Jean Colombe and workshop.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
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