Accession number:
MS M.278
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Belgium, possibly Ghent, ca. 1480-1490
Binding:
19th-century ruby red velvet with red morocco doublures by C. Smith; silver gilt corners and clasp; in dark green morocco case lettered: Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis - MS. Saaec. XV.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
188 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 150 x 110 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Leo S. Olschki in 1907; 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 in Ghent, ca. 1480-1490.
Decoration: 15 full-page miniatures, 16 historiated initials.
Artist: Workshop of Master of Edward IV.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Latin
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