Missal

Accession number: 
MS M.379
Title: 
Missal
Created: 
Foligno, Italy, late 11th or early 12th century.
Binding: 
Rebound in 20th-century orange three-quarter morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description: 
272 leaves (2 columns, 31 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 380 x 260 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943)
Notes: 

Ms. missal, perhaps for Benedictine use; written and illuminated in Foligno, Italy, in the late 11th or early 12th century.
Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures, zoomorphic and interlaced initials throughout.

Script: 
Romanesca minuscule
Language: 
Latin
Classification: