Accession number:
MS M.450
Title:
Missal
Created:
Valencia, Spain, ca. 1468.
Binding:
Red velvet, probably the original binding; late 15th-century niello clasp in two parts, one decorated with the Porta Coeli arms, the other depicting the angel Gabriel; cream silk doublures, pieces of red silk laid over miniatures; in red morocco case.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description:
212 leaves (1 column, 16-22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 350 x 250 mm
Provenance:
Written at and for the Carthusian monastery of Porta Coeli (Cartuja de Porta Coeli), Valencia, Spain (its arms on fol. 1), (ca. 1468 according to a 17th century note which is tipped into the manuscript); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Brauer in Florence, May 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. missal for Carthusian use; written and illuminated at the Carthusian monastery of Porta Coeli (Cartuja de Porta Coeli), Valencia, Spain, ca. 1468.
Musical notation: 2-, 3-, and 4-line staves ruled in red ink, with square notation (on fol. 80v-95v and 100v-102).
Scribe: in a 17th century note tipped into the manuscript the scribe is named as the prior of the monastery from 1468 to 1479, Juan Palacia, but he is more likely to have been the patron of the manuscript rather than its scribe.
Artist: Joan Ceseres.
Decoration: 3 full-page miniatures, 8 historiated initials, marginal genre scenes, historiated catchwords; instructions for the illuminator are found in some margins.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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