Accession number
MS M.751
Object title
Abrégé des histoires divines.
Created
France, possibly Amiens, between 1300 and 1310.
Binding
French 18th-century red morocco gilt; lettered: Histoires divines.
Description
114 leaves (1 column, 27 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 212 x 147 mm
Provenance
Sir John Trelawny (1816-1885); exhibited by him at the National Exhibition of Works of Art (Leeds, 1868, no. 517); his sale (London, Sotheby's, June 28, 1921, lot 77) to Frank T. Sabin; purchased in 1929 from Paul Gruel, Paris.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in France, perhaps in Amiens, between 1300 and 1310.
Texts: an abridged version in French of the preface to the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi of Petrus Pictaviensis (Peter of Poitiers followed by chronicles which have been compiled from various sources.
Decoration: 1 large and 227 small miniatures; 1 historiated border.
Texts: an abridged version in French of the preface to the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi of Petrus Pictaviensis (Peter of Poitiers followed by chronicles which have been compiled from various sources.
Decoration: 1 large and 227 small miniatures; 1 historiated border.
Script
minuscule
Language
French
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