Accession number
MS M.527
Object title
History and chronicles of Scotland.
Display Date
between 1531 and 1536.
Created
Scotland, between 1531 and 1536.
Binding
English brown morocco, ca. 1840.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
315 leaves (1 column, 39 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 290 x 190 mm
Provenance
Made for and presented to King James V of Scotland in 1531; John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (1616-1682); the Earl of Kinnoul, of Dupplin Castle; his sale (London, Sotheby's, Nov. 7, 1911, lot 68) to Cleveland; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Scotland, ca. 1531-1536.
Translator: John Bellenden.
Scribe: David Douglas.
Decoration: illuminated frontispiece with armorial and full border; 4 pages with full border decoration; 266 large illuminated initials, many inhabited.
Translator: John Bellenden.
Scribe: David Douglas.
Decoration: illuminated frontispiece with armorial and full border; 4 pages with full border decoration; 266 large illuminated initials, many inhabited.
Script
bastarda
Language
English
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