Book of Hours (Use of Paris)

Excerpts from Matthew 2 and Luke 1

F-77tw

New York City, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 1021 (Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 28), no. 30)

Original Condition

Page Height 180 – 185 mm
Page Width 125 – 130 mm
Height of Written Area 90 mm
Width of Written Area 60 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 14

History

Provenance

Offered by Bernard Quaritch cat. 240 (1905), no. 230 and cat. 290 (1910), no. 253; Sold by Quaritch to C. L. Ricketts in 1922;

C. L. Ricketts, in S. de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada I:634, no. 116;
Sold by Parke-Bernet Galleries, 23 February 1939, lot 217;
Dismembered by Otto Ege or an associate; Leaves used as No. 30 in Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolio;
Aquired by the Pierpont Morgan Library as a gift from Paul Mellon in 1979.