Accession number:
MS M.959
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Belgium, possibly Bruges or Ghent, ca. 1480.
Binding:
Modern quarter tan pigskin with tan cloth sides.
Credit:
Gift of Mrs. Alan Valentine, 1974.
Description:
6 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 195 x 142 mm
Provenance:
Philip Hofer, who removed it from his horae and gave them to Alan Valentine on Sept. 10, 1959 (the six leaves originally fell between fol. 70 and 71, where they formed the six inner conjoint leaves of a gathering of eight).
Notes:
Flemish ms. book of hours fragment; written and illuminated in Bruges? or Ghent? about 1480.
Parts are in the Gerard Groote translation--Cf. Seventeenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974.
Collation: I6; the horae from which this fragment was removed is now on deposit at Harvard University (MS. Typ 253H).
Artist: illuminated by an artist whose work resembles the early style of the Master of Mary of Burgundy.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial, 1 historiated border, 2 large illuminated initials and numerous smaller ones.
Script:
Gothic script
Language:
Dutch
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