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
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