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Book of hours (MS M.92).

Accession number
MS M.92
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.92).
Created
Paris, France, between 1230 and 1239.
Binding
Previously in antique, stamped, by Léon Gruel; rebound in russet morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in the 20th century.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
140 leaves (1 column, 29 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 165 x 110 mm
Provenance
Bought in Aug. 1895 by William Morris (1834-1896); Richard Bennett (1844-1900); Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 74; 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 Soissons; written and illuminated in Paris, France, in the 1230s.
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures, 94 historiated initials, 24 calendar illustrations.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
Classification