Accession number
MS M.201
Object title
Missal (MS M.201).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
Previously in French, 16th-century black morocco; rebound in red morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1951.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
238 leaves (2 columns, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 260 x 180 mm
Provenance
Written for the Augustinian house of Saint-Victor, Paris; Didier Petit Collection at Lyon (Catalogue, 1843, no. 352); Howell Wills sale (London, 1894, no. 1159) to Pickering for Richard 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. 11; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. missal with a calendar for the Augustinian house of Saint-Victor, Paris; written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 1 large and 4 small miniatures, 13 historiated initials.
Decoration: 1 large and 4 small miniatures, 13 historiated initials.
Script
hybrid script
Language
Latin
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