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Le livre de Melibée et de Prudence.

Accession number
MS M.39
Object title
Le livre de Melibée et de Prudence.
Display Date
between 1400 and 1450.
Created
between 1400 and 1450.
Binding
Rebound in 1932 in three-quarter vellum by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; lettered: Christine de Pisan Melibée et Prudence; once bound in 18th-century English half-calf with a late 16th-century armorial that is now bound separately as MA 1251, armorial English XVIc.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1903.
Description
22 leaves (1 column, 34 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 270 x 200 mm
Provenance
Peter Le Neve sale (London, Feb. 22, 1731, no. 512); Burton Constable sale (London, June 24, 1889, no. 133) to Neville; sale by Sotheby's (London, July 27, 1893, no. 423) to Quaritch; John E. Kerr Collection (catalogue, 1903, p. 7, no. 1); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Kerr Collection in 1903; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. chivalric romance; written and decorated in France, early 15th century.
Translated into French by Renaud de Louhans.
Decoration: gold initials in rose and blue fields and ornamental penwork.
Script
bastarda
Language
French
Century
Classification