Accession number:
MS M.734
Title:
Livres de bonnes moeurs
Created:
Rouen, France, ca. 1420.
Binding:
Modern French brown morocco over original boards; covers stamped with a scroll containing a dragon alternating with a daisy; imitating 15th-century design; in brown morocco case.
Description:
82 leaves (2 columns, 26-28 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 240 x 180 mm
Provenance:
Christie's sale (London, Mar. 2, 1922, lot 135) to Winter; J. Pearson sale (London, Dec. 7, 1924, lot 887) to Dobell; purchased from L.C. Harper in 1928.
Notes:
Ms. moralistic treatise; written and illuminated in France, probably Rouen, ca. 1420.
Decoration: 1 large miniature; French Gothic style.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Middle French
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