Accession number:
MS M.779
Title:
Hagiography
Created:
Belgium, ca. 1450.
Binding:
Enclosed in a 17th- or 18th-century red velvet rolled case, edged with needlework and gold braid; in 1/4 red morocco over cardboard box made by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Description:
1 roll : vellum, ill. ; 3925 x 101 mm
Provenance:
Purchased from Goldschmidt of London in Feb. 1933.
Notes:
Ms. saint's life; perhaps written and illuminated in Belgium, ca. 1450.
The roll consists of 6 vellum sheets pasted together; it contains 697 lines of verse followed by two short prayers.
Decoration: 1 miniature.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
French and Latin
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