Accession number:
MS H.5
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Binding:
18th-century reddish brown morocco with gold-tooled border lines.
Credit:
Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description:
144 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 172 x 117 mm
Provenance:
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1962.
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Paris (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 19 large miniatures, 24 small miniatures, 60 calendar illustrations, 512 border illustrations.
Artists: at least 3 artists, one a follower of the Chief Associate of Maître François.
Script:
hybrid bastarda and humanistic script
Language:
Latin and French
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