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Miniatures of the life of Christ (MS M.44).

Accession number
MS M.44
Object title
Miniatures of the life of Christ (MS M.44).
Created
France, perhaps Corbie, ca. 1175.
Binding
Previously in French, 19th-century dark brown morocco blind-tooled with red morocco mosaic double, by Lortic; replaced with modern buckram clamshell binding, July, 2001.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
16 leaves, bound : vellum, col. ill. ; 340 x 200 mm
Provenance
Said to have come from St. Martial of Limoges; owned ca. 1810 by Henry Martin; Comte Auguste de Bastard d'Estang (1792-1883) Collection; A. Firmin-Didot sale (Paris, 1879, no. 10) to Labitte; Quaritch, Catalogue 164 (1896), no. 1; Richard Bennett, his Catalogue, no. 101; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. life of Christ picturebook; illuminated in northern France, perhaps Corbie, ca. 1175.
Decoration: 30 full-page miniatures detatched perhaps from a psalter.
Revised: 2015
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