Accession number:
MS M.170
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Rouen, France, ca. 1500-1510.
Binding:
19th-century stamped brown morocco.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description:
76 leaves (1 column, 25 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 200 x 130 mm
Provenance:
Purchased June 25, 1894 by Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 59; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Book of hours for the use of Rouen (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1500-1510.
Decoration: 14 large miniatures, 24 calendar vignettes.
Artist: stylistically related to the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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