Accession number:
MS M.348
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Avignon, France, approximately 1485-1490.
Binding:
Formerly red velvet; now American, 20th-century light brown morocco, gold tooled, by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; in half-tan morocco chemise in tan marbled paper slipcase.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description:
274 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 125 x 85 mm
Provenance:
Bought in Munich (Nov. 1858) by Baron Walther von Grainger; Duke of Hamilton sale (London, 1889, no. 75) to Robson and Kerslake (Cf. De Ricci; not in the Hamilton catalogue of 1882 and therefore possibly added to the sale by the Berlin authorities); no. 631 in an Ellis catalogue (?); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Rossi in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome; written and illuminated in Avignon, France, ca. 1485-1490.
Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures; 24 large miniatures; 24 calendar illustrations.
Artists: begun by Georges Trubert and the Master of the della Rovere Missals; completed by a follower of Jean Bourdichon.
Three of the calendar scenes by Georges Trubert (fols. 10v, 24, and 25v) are based on, or models serving, an earlier Book of Hours (Paris, BNF Ms. n. a. Latin 3115, fols. 2, 12, 11).
Revised: 2016
Script:
littera bastarda
Language:
Latin
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