Accession number:
MS M.315
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Florence, Italy, second half of the 15th century
Binding:
19th-century maroon morocco with clasp; lettered: Officium Beat. Mar. Virginis.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
292 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 130 x 90 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Canessa in 1907; 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 Florence, Italy, perhaps in an Augustinian monastery, in the second half of the 15th century.
Decoration: 6 historiated initials, 1 historiated full-page border, 1 full-page border with putto and angels.
Artist: Ricciardo di Nanni in the workshop of Filippo di Matteo Torelli; it is believed that Ricciardo finished some of the work left undone by Torelli.
Script:
written in Italian textura
Language:
Latin and Italian
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