
Livre des merveilles du monde
ca. 1460
France, probably Angers
281 x 220 mm
MS M.461, fols. 2v–3r
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1911
Author Portrait
While this book is an anonymous compilation made by gathering texts from numerous classical and medieval authors, it nonetheless opens with a generic author portrait, which gives the work a sense of authority.