Accession number:
MS M.290
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
France, perhaps Paris, Rouen, or Tours, ca. 1520.
Binding:
Rose velvet.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
132 leaves (1 column, 29 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 191 x 96 mm
Provenance:
Given (ca. 1700) by Madame de Martin de Brésillac, and her daughters Madame de Marion de Brésillac, Madame de Barche de La Courtête and Madame de Ravaing d'Ardos, and their brother the abbé Marion de Brésillac; Quaritch, catalogue 235 (Nov. 1904), no. 121; 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, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in France, perhaps Paris, ca. 1520.
Artists: a late follower of Jean Poyer and the Master of Morgan 219, recently rechristened Maître de la Chronique scandaleuse.
Decoration: 17 large miniatures, 3 small miniatures.
Script:
littera humanistica rotunda
Language:
Latin
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