Book of Hours

Accession number: 
MS M.431
Title: 
Book of Hours
Created: 
Rouen, France, early 16th century.
Binding: 
20th-century red velvet with marks of clasps; in green morocco solander case lettered: Horae XVIme siècle.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description: 
163 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 130 mm
Provenance: 
Owned in 1543 by Jehan Belon of Soulié in southern France; Gruel and Engelmann collection (bookplate inside front cover); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Tedeschi of Florence May 7, 1910; 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 Rouen, France, early 16th century.
Decoration: 13 large, and 22 small miniatures; 24 calendar vignettes.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin and Middle French
Classification: