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Book of hours (MS M.59).

Accession number
MS M.59
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.59).
Created
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1470.
Binding
Black leather with metal bosses in black morocco case lattered: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis - manuscript sur velin du Xve siècle - miniatures grisaille - Ecole de Bruges.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
183 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 100 x70 mm
Provenance
Arms of the first owner on fol. 13v (gules a chief or (the chief twice the normal size); according to binder, these arms borne by the families du Frasne of Hainaut and Hortenels, de or van Lille and van-Nieuwland of Flanders); bought July 21, 1894 by 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. 88; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Belgium, perhaps Bruges, ca. 1470.
Decoration: 16 grisaille miniatures, heightened with color.
Artist: workshop of Guillaume Vrelant.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Century
Classification