Accession number:
MS M.144
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Rouen, France, ca. 1490
Binding:
French 16th-century Clovis Eve brown morocco richly-gilt with name: Genevieve Planteroze.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Description:
91 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 170 x 110 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson before 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1490.
Decoration: 14 large miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations (vignettes), marginal decoration throughout.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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