Accession number:
MS M.921
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Czech Republic, possibly Prague, 1446.
Binding:
18th-century gold tooled red morocco with blue doublures.
Credit:
Gift; Fellows, with funds from the Belle da Costa Greene Fund, 1965.
Description:
156 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 150 x 103 mm
Provenance:
Given by Johanna, Baroness Rozmital (d. 1475) to her husband George Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-1471); arms of his holdings on fol. 3 (above left: azure, an eagle displayed chequy argent and gules, tongued, clawed, and crowned or [Moravia]; above center: gules, a lion rampant tail forked argent, crowned or [Bohemia] beneath a crown or; above right: or, an eagle displayed sable, on its breast a crescent argent [Silesia]; lower left: barry azure and argent a lion rampant gules, crowned or [unidentified (Upper Lusatia?)]; lower right: argent [?], an ox passant gules [Lower Lusatia]; Stephen Apor, Altorja (Hungary), before 1690; Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London; C.W. Dyson Perrins; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 9 December 1958, lot 24); John R. Fleming, New York; purchased from Fleming as Gift of the Fellows and with funds from the Belle da Costa Greene Fund in 1965.
Notes:
Ms. book of hours; written and illuminated in what is now the Czech Republic, possibly in Prague, in 1466, dated in preliminary inscription on fol. 1v.
M.921 has been referred to as the Hours of George of Podiebrad.
Decoration: 6 full-page miniatures, 2 small miniatures with marginal extenders; 2 historiated initials with marginal extenders, 51 illuminated initials, 52 elaborate borders.
Script:
textura
Language:
Czech
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