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Book of hours (MS M.238).

Accession number
MS M.238
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.238).
Created
England, ca. 1480.
Binding
English late 17th-century black morocco; lettered: Hora: B.M.V. In usu. Sa.; in black morocco case lettered: English Horae: Bishop Tunstall's Collection - ca. 1510.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
136 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 110 x 70 mm
Provenance
Believed to have belonged to Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall; Cuthbert Constable (d. 1746); the Constables of Burton Constable; their sale (London, June 24, 1889, no. 77) to Ridler; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Sarum; written and illuminated in England, ca. 1480.
Decoration: 11 small historiated initials.
Artist: possibly illuminated by a Flemish artist working in England.
Script
textura.
Language
Latin
Century
Classification