Accession number:
MS M.75
Title:
Breviary
Created:
Paris, France, ca. 1350.
Binding:
English 19th-century brown blind-tooled morocco lettered: Breviarium Romanum. Ms. XIII saec., enclosed in dark purple morocco case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description:
590 leaves (2 columns, 31 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 188 x 125 mm
Provenance:
Library of Edwin H. Lawrence, F.S.A.; his sale May 1892, no. 88; William Morris; Richard Bennett (purchased from Morris's estate, 1897); Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 12; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. breviary for the use of Rome, Franciscan rite; written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1350.
73 miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations, bas-de-page compositions with hybrids and grotesques.
Artist: various artists working in the style of Jean Pucelle.
François Avril has suggested a relationship to the work of Artist D in Paris, Bibl. Nationale, ms. fr. 167 and to Stockholm, Bibl. Royale, ms. A.165.
Revised: 2015
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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