Accession number:
MS M.1004
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Paris, France, approximately 1420-1425.
Binding:
English late 18th-century red morocco gilt, with green leather label "Missale."
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, Mr. Haliburton Fales, 2nd, Miss Alice Tully, and Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1979.
Description:
174 leaves (2 columns, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 220 x 155 mm
Provenance:
Louis XI and Charlotte of Savoy (or possiblyYolande of France and Amédée of Savoy), whose arms were added in the borders of the large miniatures; Sir Chester Beatty (Western Ms. 95); his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 24, 1969, no. 59; Arthur Haddaway.
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Paris; written and illuminated in Paris, ca. 1420-1425.
Decoration: 13 large and 9 small miniatures, and 24 calendar illustrations, with full borders on nearly every leaf, most incorporating grotesques, animals, and insects.
Artists: A) Bedford Master or workshop (fols. 17r, 63v); B) Guise Master (51r, 54r, 95r); C) Master of Morgan 453 (44v, 58v, 64r, 89v, 143r, 146v); D) Master of the Spitz Hours (7r, 8r, 9r, 9v, 10v, 13v); E) Follower of the Boucicaut Master (33r, 40v, 47v, 78r, 99v).
Revised: 2015
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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