Accession number
MS M.390
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.390).
Created
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1500.
Binding
16th-century brown calf by Louis Bloc, with four rectangular stamped panels on each cover containing stags, monkeys, squirrels, hedgehogs, and other animals in interlacing vine branches.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description
197 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 230 x 170 mm
Provenance
Executed for Jean II Carondelet (1468-1544), archbishop of Palermo, primate of Sicily, Chancellor of Flanders (initials: I.C.; motto: matura; arms: azure a bend or, 6 besants of the same, 3 and 3, painted in the margins of 8 miniatures and in the initial on fol. 123); later in the collection of Dr. Hasenclever (19th century); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Gruel in 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 17 full-page miniatures, 32 small miniatures, borders with flowers, animals, and drolleries.
Artist: attributed to the Master of Sir George Talbot, an artist who illuminated a prayer-book for George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury and knight of the Garter, ca. 1500 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gough Liturg. 7).
Decoration: 17 full-page miniatures, 32 small miniatures, borders with flowers, animals, and drolleries.
Artist: attributed to the Master of Sir George Talbot, an artist who illuminated a prayer-book for George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury and knight of the Garter, ca. 1500 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gough Liturg. 7).
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
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