Accession number:
MS M.309
Title:
Offices ou pratiques de dévotion
Created:
France, 1680.
Binding:
Original 17th-century citron morocco inlaid with red and olive; solid gold tulip on red in center panel, olive doublures tooled in silver; lettered: Office de la semaine; binding is perhaps by Padeloup; in citron case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; lettered: Offices de Devotion.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
105 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : paper and vellum, ill. ; 110 x 70 mm
Provenance:
Compiled and written for a lady of the Rochechouart family, possibly Mme. Françoise de Rochechouart-Montemart Montespan; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Gruel in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in France, and dated on the title page in 1680.
Title page is vellum; the remainder of the manuscript is paper.
Decoration: illuminated title page with Rochechouart arms, argent and gules, fascé ondé.
Scribe: in the style of Etienne Damoiselet.
Variant Title:
Title on case: Offices de devotion
Script:
Roman letters
Language:
French
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