Accession number
MS M.421
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.421).
Created
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1450.
Binding
19th-century brown stamped morocco by Capé; lettered: Preces Piae.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description
76 leaves (1 column, 17-18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 159 x 110 mm
Provenance
Owned in the 16th and 17th centuries by members of the Van Esschede, Hart, and Moons families of the Overissel province of Holland (inscriptions on fol. 31); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in July 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Tournai; written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1450.
Decoration: 2 full-page and 6 large miniatures.
Artist: the Master of Jean Chevrot executed five miniatures, fol. 13v (Holy Face), 15v (Trinity), 23v (St. George), 25v (St. Nicholas), 27v (St. Adrian); two miniatures are by an anonymous hand.
Some of the miniatures may have been retouched; the Crucifixion on fol. 19v is possibly a 19th-century copy--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 2 full-page and 6 large miniatures.
Artist: the Master of Jean Chevrot executed five miniatures, fol. 13v (Holy Face), 15v (Trinity), 23v (St. George), 25v (St. Nicholas), 27v (St. Adrian); two miniatures are by an anonymous hand.
Some of the miniatures may have been retouched; the Crucifixion on fol. 19v is possibly a 19th-century copy--Cf. PML files.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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