Accession number:
MS M.1020
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
France, possibly Angers, ca. 1450.
Binding:
Late 16th-century French calf gilt, with Crucifixion medallion in center and arabesque cornerpieces.
Credit:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Kraus, 1980.
Description:
145 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 138 mm
Provenance:
London, Sotheby's, Dec. 11, 1979, no. 62; H.P. Kraus.
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Angers (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in France, possibly in Angers, ca. 1450; two miniatures (on fol. 32r and 33r) added ca. 1490.
Decoration: 2 full-page and 5 large miniatures, one with 3 historiated roundels in the border; elaborate panel borders on nearly every page.
Artist: the artist of the second of the two miniatures added ca. 1490 , an Icon of the Vingin, with the burning bush below on fol. 33, is probably Georges Trubert--Cf. Nineteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and Middle French
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