Accession number
MS M.493
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.493).
Created
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1480.
Binding
19th-century tan pigskin stamped with interlocking Y's in the four corners of the central panel; oxydized silver clasps with double Y hinges; bound for Nicolas Yemeniz by Trautz-Bauzonnet (Georges Trautz); lettered: Officium B. Mariae Virginis; in brown half-morocco case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
124 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 170 x 122 mm
Provenance
Nicolas Yemeniz (his sale, Paris, 1867, no. 71) to Ambroise Firmin-Didot; his sale (Paris, 1879, no. 27) to Labitte; Robert Hoe Collection (catalogue, 1909, p. 105); his sale (New York, Anderson Galleries, 1912, II, no. 2465) to Quaritch; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Léon Gruel in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1480.
Silver and gold lettering on vellum stained black (Black Hours).
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures.
Artist: a follower of Guillaume Vrelant influenced by Philippe de Mazerolles; and Liévin van Lathem (fols. 13v-14).
Silver and gold lettering on vellum stained black (Black Hours).
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures.
Artist: a follower of Guillaume Vrelant influenced by Philippe de Mazerolles; and Liévin van Lathem (fols. 13v-14).
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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