Book of Hours
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Accession number:
MS M.307
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1520.
Binding:
19th-century red morocco, the inscription on the spine reads "REL. P. BOZERIAN JEUNE"; lettered: Praeces Piae - Manuscriptus in membranis; light blue moiré doublures in a 17th-century (?) red morocco case with gilt dentelle tooling.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
176 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 80 x 60 mm
Provenance:
Signed G.G. on fol. 145v, possibly initials of first owner (in bas-de-page genre scene, woman is embroidering these initials in gold onto the blanket draped over a unicorn); said to have come from the Van Horn collection (possibly Baron van Hoorn); sold in Paris in 1809; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from J. & S. Goldschmidt of Frankfurt on Apr. 29, 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1520.
Decoration: 27 full-page miniatures, 12 calendar miniatures, 2 historiated borders, and 8 borders with genre scenes.
Artist: Simon Bening.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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