Book of Hours

Accession number: 
MS M.312
Title: 
Book of Hours
Created: 
Rouen, France, 1470-1480
Binding: 
Purple velvet by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description: 
141 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 200 x 140 mm
Provenance: 
Eighteenth-century Italian library shelfmark: C VI 2 13; from the library of Principe Massimo of Rome; sold in Mar. 1882 to Antonio Biagio Licata, Principe di Baucina of Palermo (1832-1893) and by him in England; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Canessa in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms. book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, calendar); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1470-1480.
Decoration: 12 large miniatures, 24 calendar vignettes, 3 historiated initials.
Artist: Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin and Middle French
Classification: