Accession number:
MS M.820
Title:
Livres du roy Modus et de la royne Racio
Created:
Lyon, France, ca. 1465.
Binding:
Red morocco gilt, French, 18th century.
Credit:
Purchased, 1947.
Description:
160 leaves (2 columns, 38-40 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 295 x 223 mm
Provenance:
Owned early in the 16th century by Madelaigne de Beauvoir, her name on fol. 160; library of Sir Thomas Phillipps at Cheltenham (Ms. 3641); purchased from William H. Robinson, London, Jan. 1947.
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in Lyon, France, ca. 1465.
Manuscript may be written in the Picard dialect.
Decoration: 71 miniatures, all but one tinted grisaille.
Artist: 2 distinct artists, one known as the Master of the Vienna Roman de la Rose (Öst Nationalbibl., Cod 2568). Elsig identified this artist as Jean Hortart (?).
Fol. 160, with Madelaigne de Beauvoir's name and two prayers in Latin, was added to the manuscript.
Revised: 2015
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Middle French
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