Accession number:
MS M.32
Title:
Book of hours
Created:
France, probably Rouen, ca. 1470
Binding:
English stamped calf, ca. 1540, with the Tudor rose.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1900.
Description:
82 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 130 mm
Provenance:
G. Libri sale (London, Aug. 1, 1859, cat. 1859 no. 1272) to Willis; purchased (Oct. 1860) from Appleton by Theodore Irwin, cat. 1887, p. 217, no. 1369; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Irwin Collection in 1900; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rouen (calendar in French); written and illuminated in France, probably Rouen, ca. 1470.
Artist: Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Echevinage.
Decoration: 3 large miniatures; 6 historiated border vignettes; 47 calendar vignettes, comprising labors of the months, Virtues and Vices, Old Testament, and "historical" scenes.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and French
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