Accession number:
MS M.285
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Belgium, perhaps Bruges or Valenciennes, ca. 1470.
Binding:
Original 15th-century Flemish blind-stamped brown calf, 2 panels with scrolls containing eagles, over and beneath which the name IHESUS, in black morocco case lettered: Horae - XV siècle
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
268 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 100 x 70 mm
Provenance:
Executed for a member of the Sivry or Montiguy-St. Christophe family of Hainaut (arms on fol. 26v, burelé d'argent, et d'azur, the monogram SIVRY and arms of Sivry, Mastain, Waronie and Berlaimont on fol. 27, on fol. 244 the inscription: Loyal et Secret); Léon Gruel (catalogue, 1905, no. 14); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin), calendar for Liège; written and illuminated in Belgium, perhaps in Bruges or Valenciennes, ca. 1470.
Decoration: 38 full-page miniatures, 2 full-page armorials, 17 small miniatures, 12 historiated border medallions, 24 calendar vignettes.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Latin and French
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