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Book of hours (MS M.287).

Accession number
MS M.287
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.287).
Created
Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1445.
Binding
17th century maroon morocco, gilt tooled; front cover with name: Barbe; back cover with name: Renel.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
155, 11 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 188 x 132 mm
Provenance
Former 17th century owner Barbe de Lescut, comtesse du Saint-Empire, wife of Balthazar de Rennel, d. 1637, aged 79 (name of owner on binding); Rev. Edward Duncan Rhodes Collection, Wells; his sale (London, May 10, 1867), no. 1609) to Arthur; C.J. Spence Collection, North Shields; his sale (London, Nov. 5, 1906, no. 274) to Leighton; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Rome; calendar in French; written and illuminated in Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1445.
Decoration: 25 miniatures, most with border scenes, and 2 historiated initials; kneeling owner portrait on fol. 21 with the enthroned Virgin; miniatures appear to have been repainted in the 19th century.
Artists: a follower of the Master of Guillebert de Mets and a follower of the Egerton Master.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin and French
Classification