Accession number:
MS M.49.1-10
Title:
Voyage de Saint Louis.
Created:
France, ca. 1860.
Binding:
Brown calf with fleur-de-lis at corners and on back.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description:
10 leaves (1 column, 12 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 130 x 111 mm
Provenance:
Sold by Sotheby's (London, July 27, 1893, no. 901) to Southeran; bought Aug. 1, 1893 by Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 115; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in France, ca. 1860, in imitation of a 13th or 14th century manuscript; script may be an imitation of textura.
Scribe: attributed to Henri Fabre of Lausanne.
Decoration: 5 miniatures, 2 illuminated initials.
Artist: attributed to Henri Fabre of Lausanne.
Language:
French
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