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Book of hours (MS M.64).

Accession number
MS M.64
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.64).
Created
France, Lyons? ca. 1430.
Binding
Dark purple morocco, blind tooled with two clasps by Simier, lettered: Preces Piae - Manuscrit 1350.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
134 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 178 x 123 mm
Provenance
Owned (ca. 1825) by Coulon of Lyon (not in his sale, 1829); obtained (Apr. 4, 1893) by exchange from Ch., by Baron Jérôme Pichon; his sale (Paris, 1897, no. 28) to Belin; bought (Nov. 4, 1897) by R. Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 76; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome; possibly written and illuminated in southeastern France, Lyons?, ca. 1430.
Decoration: 23 miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations, 77 medallions within elaborate borders.
Artists: various unknown artists.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
Classification