Accession number:
MS M.196
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Savoy or Besançon, France, ca. 1470.
Binding:
French 19th-century dark brown morocco; lettered: Heures.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description:
173 leaves (1 column, 13 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 132 mm
Provenance:
Arms (fleurs-de-lis, etc.) in borders, possibly repainted; bought Nov. 20, 1895 by Richard Bennett, his bookplate, his Catalogue, no. 34; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Besançon; written and illuminated in Besançon or Savoy, ca. 1470.
Artist: a follower of Antoine de Lonhy.
Decoration: 21 large miniatures, 11 small border miniatures.
The illumination of M.196 is unfinished. The heraldic shield in the upper left margin of fol. 78r has not been painted.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Latin
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