Accession number:
MS M.865
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
France, perhaps Brittany, ca. 1425.
Binding:
Formerly in 18th-century French calf; rebound in 1953 by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit:
Gift of Mrs. Walton Martin, Dec. 11, 1952.
Description:
190 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 206 x 153 mm
Notes:
Book of hours for the use of Rome; calendar in French, composite; written and illuminated in France, perhaps Brittany, ca. 1425.
Decoration: 16 large miniatures.
Artist: unidentified artist.
Retrieved from the 18th-century binding in which this manuscript was formerly bound were five leaves from a 17th- or 18th-century Cistercian antiphonary that was printed in red and black on heavy paper; printed at the foot of one of the cuttings is the inscription: Psalter Cist--Cf PML files.
Musical notation in the binding sheets: 4-line staves and square notes.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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