Accession number
MS M.232
Object title
Le livre des prouffis champestres et ruraux.
Created
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1470.
Binding
Belgian 18th-century mottled calf, gilt-tooled, in green morocco case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1906.
Description
304 leaves (2 columns, 36 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 428 x 335 mm
Provenance
Arms of Burgundy (azure three bends or) on fol. 77r; the Earl of Cork and Orrery sale (London, Christies, Nov. 21, 1905, no. 207) to Quaritch (catalogue 250, 1906, no. 764); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Quaritch in 1906; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1470.
Decoration: 12 half-page miniatures.
The illumination of M.232 is unfinished. Two line-endings on fol. 40r were not completed.
Artist: Master of Fitzwilliam MS. 268.
Decoration: 12 half-page miniatures.
The illumination of M.232 is unfinished. Two line-endings on fol. 40r were not completed.
Artist: Master of Fitzwilliam MS. 268.
Script
bastarda
Language
Burgundian French
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