Accession number:
MS M.329
Title:
Breviary
Created:
Devonshire, England, 1325-1330.
Binding:
English 17th-century brown calf in brown morocco case lettered: Sarum Breviary - West Anglican, XIV cent.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
296 leaves (2 columns, 36 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 150 x 100 mm
Provenance:
Possibly Church of St. Eustace at Tavistock; Richard Sterne (1596-1683), Archbishop of York (signature Rrd Eb. on verso of paper flyleaf); calendar obits including members of the Meoles, de Courtney (Earls of Devon), le Pyl, Pervyd, Antron, and Upchulle families; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. breviary for the use of Sarum, calendar for western England; written and illuminated in Devonshire, England (possibly for the Church of St. Eustace at Tavistock), ca. 1325-1330.
Decoration: 15 historiated initials, marginal grotesques and genre scenes executed in multicolored penwork at the bottom of nearly every page.
Script:
compressed textura
Language:
Latin
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