Accession number:
MS M.388
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Tours, France, ca. 1495.
Binding:
19th-century French cream moroccco gilt and mosaic.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description:
164 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 188 x 120 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Gruel in 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Chartres (Hours of the Virgin) and Tours (Office of the Dead); calendar in French; written and illuminated in Tours, France, ca. 1495.
Decoration: 12 full-page miniatures, 21 small miniatures.
Artist: a follower of Jean Poyer (formerly Poyet).
Script:
bastarda.
Language:
Latin and French
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