Accession number:
MS M.9
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Tours, France, ca. 1490-1500
Binding:
17th-century French red morocco gilt, in the style of Le Gascon, in red morocco gilt case.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1901.
Description:
156 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 170 x 110 mm
Provenance:
No. 653 in a (German?) 19th-century sale; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1901; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours, perhaps for the use of Paris (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Tours, France, ca. 1490-1500.
Artist: Workshop of Jean Poyer.
Decoration: 13 miniatures.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Latin and French
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