Accession number:
MS M.209-210
Title:
Breviary
Created:
Italy, perhaps Milan, ca. 1460-1470.
Binding:
Previously in English 19th-century tan calf, blind tooled; rebound by Deborah Evetts in red morocco, gilt-tooled, Feb. 1972.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
M.209 210 leaves (2 columns, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 120 mm
<br>M.210 292 leaves (2 columns, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 120 mm
Provenance:
Overpainted arms on fol. 97 of M.209 : or three bends azure with a cardinal's hat, suggested to be those of Cardinal Niccolò Fieschi (Flisco), count of Lavagna; ownership stamp on flyleaf of M.209 (Lugt 642d), contemporary with the stamp of P.F. Gachet (1828-1909); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. breviary for Franciscan use; written and illuminated in northern Italy, perhaps Milan, ca. 1460-1470.
Decoration - M.209: 5 historiated initials, arms on fol. 97 (a shield or, three bends azure)
Decoration - M.210: 7 historiated initials.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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