Accession number:
MS M.526
Title:
Histoire de la Bible et de l’Assomption de Notre-Dame
Created:
Paris, France, between 1390 and 1400.
Binding:
Previously in French 19th-century brown calf, in red morocco case by Thompson; rebound in blue-green morocco leather, blind-tooled, by Charlotte M. Ullman in January 1968.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description:
43 leaves (2 columns, 47 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 360 x 265 mm
Provenance:
J. Barrois collection (no. 127); sold in 1849 to the Earl of Ashburnham; his sale (London, Sotheby's, June 12, 1901, lot no. 263) to Quaritch (catalogue 211, 1902, no. 74); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Quaritch in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. moralized verse; written and illuminated in Paris, France, between 1390 and 1400.
Decoration: 223 grisaille miniatures.
Artist: Master of Death (Pierre Remiet?) and assistant; see Camille, Master of Death; see also Rouse and Rouse, Manuscripts and Their Makers, I, pp. 293-96, II, App. 11B; and Paris 1400, p. 46. MSS previously attributed by Camille to Pierre Remiet are now given to an anonymous illuminator baptized the "Master of Death" by Paris 1400 using Camille's book title. This anonymous illuminator might be one of possibly two different Pierre Remiets mentioned in documents.
Revised: 2016
Script:
bastarda
Language:
French
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