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Grandes chroniques de France (MS M.536).

Accession number
MS M.536
Object title
Grandes chroniques de France (MS M.536).
Created
France, probably Paris, 1410-1412.
Binding
French 18th-century red morocco gilt by Derome; lettered on spine: Chroniques de St Denys M.S.S. sur velin avec Miniatures.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
376 leaves (2 columns, 54-56 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 425 x 320 mm
Provenance
Countersigned "Le Masson" by a notary on first and last page (De Ricci), from the library of "Le Hasson" (notebook); purchased by Henry Huth from Quaritch in 1877 (catalogue, I, 1880, p. 313); A.H. Huth sale (London, Sotheby's, June 7, 1912, (eleventh day's sale, II, no. 1577, 2 plates) to Quaritch; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Quaritch in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1410-1412.
Decoration: 1 large and 50 small square miniatures.
Artist: Master of the Cité des Dames.
Revised: 2015
Script
textura.
Language
Middle French
Century
Classification