Accession number:
MS M.439
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Belgium, perhaps Ghent, 1420-1430.
Binding:
20th-century green velvet over heavy boards; two hand-shaped clasps.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1910.
Description:
130 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 140 mm
Provenance:
Léon Gruel (bookplate on front inside cover); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Gruel in 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours; use of Arras (Hours of the Virgin), preceeded by an abbreviated Hours of the Virgin for the use of Rome; written and illuminated in Belgium, perhaps in Ghent, between 1420-1430.
The text of M.439 is unfinished. The Calendar is incomplete.
Decoration: 9 full-page miniatures, 10 historiated initials.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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