BIB_ID
80836
Accession number
MA 15
Creator
Benard, Jean.
Display Date
1572 Jan. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (602 p.), bound ; 29.8 cm.
Notes
A dedication page to M. de Villeroy with his arms; volume includes pages with illuminated borders of flowers.
Another copy, preparatory, is in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, Ms. 3729.
There are 578 pages of text, 8 introductory pages and 16 pages of a Table of Contents at the end.
Another copy, preparatory, is in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, Ms. 3729.
There are 578 pages of text, 8 introductory pages and 16 pages of a Table of Contents at the end.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Co., London before 1913; from the collection of Louis Bizeau, a 17th century book collector, and Lord Ashburnham (sale, Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, London, May 1, 1899).
Summary
Being a work of several authors summarizing the alliances and quarrels between the English and the French; written on the rectos and versos of 301 leaves with fine painting throughout with illuminated borders of flowers on introductory and chapter heading pages.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (33.7 x 23.4 cm)
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