Accession number:
MS G.35
Title:
Cas des nobles hommes et femmes malheureux
Created:
France, probably Tours, ca. 1480.
Binding:
Gold-tooled green morocco with silk doublures by Derôme le Jeune.
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
366 leaves (2 columns, 43 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 383 x 276 mm
Provenance:
Duc de la Vallière (?); Justin, Comte de MacCarthy Reagh; De Bure Frères, Paris; Robert Lang, London; his sale, London, R.H. Evans, Nov. 17, 1828, lot 212; Sir Thomas Phillipps (Ms. 3669); Katharine Fenwick; Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick; Alan George Fenwick; D.M. Colman; purchased in Aug. 1955 from Charles Stonehill Inc., New Haven for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes:
Ms.; written and illuminated in France, probably Tours, ca. 1480.
Translation into French by Laurent de Premierfait.
Decoration: 9 large miniatures, illuminated borders, numerous illuminated initials.
Script:
bastarda.
Language:
French
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