Accession number:
MS M.342-343
Title:
Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes
Created:
Paris, France, ca. 1475.
Binding:
Previously bound in dark blue morocco, blind-tooled by Rivière & Son, London; rebound but not resewn in Oct. and Nov. 1966.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1908.
Description:
2 v. : (148, 173 leaves (1 column, 51-52 lines), bound) : paper and vellum, ill. ; 370 x 270 mm
Provenance:
L. Bournel (signature in M.342 on fol. 74v; has been identified as Louis de Bournel (d. 1549)); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1908; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1475.
The French translation of Laurent de Premierfait.
Decoration: 1 small miniature and 8 half-page miniatures.
The half-page miniatures are on vellum; the remainder of the manuscript is on paper.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Middle French
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