Accession number
MS M.705
Object title
Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance.
Created
Angers, France, between 1455 and 1460.
Binding
English 19th-century violet morocco lettered: traite entre laure devote MS; gilt-tooled in the style of Charles Lewis; in red cloth slipcase.
Credit line
Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., 1926.
Description
70 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 178 x 128 mm
Provenance
Thomas Edwards of Halifax (his sale, May 15 1828, lot 963, sold to Hering); Adolphe Audenet Collection (not traced in his sales, Paris 1839, 1841 and 1874); Ellis and Elvey, cat., Nov. 1891, no. 609; Mrs. George Gordon King sale (New York, May 5, 1926, no. 144, facs.) to Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. (dealer); purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. in 1926.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Angers, France, ca. 1455-1460.
Dedication to Jean Bernard (1386-1466), archbishop of Tours and confessor of King René, fol. 1-2v.
Decoration: 9 miniatures.
Artists: Dedication Master, who executed the dedication picture on fol. 1, and the Master of Jeanne de Laval who did the remaining miniatures.
The illustrations by the Master of Jeanne de Laval are thought to have been copied from a lost ms illustrated by Barthélemy van Eyck for René.
Revised: 2015
Dedication to Jean Bernard (1386-1466), archbishop of Tours and confessor of King René, fol. 1-2v.
Decoration: 9 miniatures.
Artists: Dedication Master, who executed the dedication picture on fol. 1, and the Master of Jeanne de Laval who did the remaining miniatures.
The illustrations by the Master of Jeanne de Laval are thought to have been copied from a lost ms illustrated by Barthélemy van Eyck for René.
Revised: 2015
Script
bastarda
Language
French
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