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Book of hours (MS M.305).

Accession number
MS M.305
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.305).
Created
Florence, Italy, ca. 1495.
Binding
Previously in red velvet; rebound in 20th-century tan morocco, gold-tooled to an intricate "jeu de filets", doublures with wide grolieresque borders, in half-tan morocco chemise; in marbled paper slipcase, lettered: OFFICIUM / ITALIAN / FLORENTINE / C. 1500.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
271 leaves (1 column, 12 lines), bound : vellum, ill. 130 x 90 mm
Provenance
Executed in Florence, ca. 1495, for a member of the Bartolini-Salimbeni families (arms on fol. 17v and 18: gules a lion rampant per fesse indented sable and argent, for argent and sable; argent three bends counter-embattled gules); M. Preaux of Paris (1845); J. Rutter (South Kensington Museum loan exhibition, 1862, no. 6883); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Rahir of Paris in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Florence, Italy, ca. 1495.
Decoration: 6 full-page miniatures, 6 historiated initials, 20 border vignettes, 10 full borders with putti, 1 full border with skulls, 1 full border with grotesques and winged putti heads.
Artist: attributed by Mirella Levi d'Ancona (in conversation with William Voelkle in 1971) to Stefano di Tommaso Lunetti.
Script
humanistic script
Language
Latin
Century
Classification