¶ Book of hours (c. 1375) [MS]

Book of hours.

Illuminated manuscript. France, perhaps Verdun and Paris, c. 1375. 229 leaves. Marginal note by Sydney Cockerell in Morgan Catalogue 4: “Valued at £84 by the Morris Executors, no doubt the price paid by Morris.”

Provenance: George J. R. Gordon. — Quaritch general catalogue, 1880, no. 50. — Quaritch catalogue 332, November 1880, no. 39 (£160). — Quaritch general catalogue, VIII, 1884, no. 17381. — Quaritch catalogue 369, September 1886, no. 35712 (£160). — Quaritch catalogue 93, 1888, no. 206. — Quaritch catalogue 118, December 1891, no. 528 (£100). — Quaritch catalogue 138, December 1893, no. 93 (£84). — Morris (purchased 22 April 1895). — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (MS M.90).

References: Additional bibliography (Morgan Library). — Curatorial description (Morgan Library). — de Ricci, 2:1383, no. 90. — Ellis valuation, fol. 3, no. 47 (£84). — Morgan Catalogue 4, no. 68. — Schoenberg (SDBM_MS_7316).

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