Accession number
MS M.381
Object title
Livre des cleres et nobles femmes.
Created
France, probably Paris or possibly the Loire region, ca. 1460.
Binding
Rebound in 20th century; previous binding French, 18th century tan calf, blind tooled.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
67 leaves (2 columns, 40 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 328 x 238 mm
Provenance
Charlotte de Beaurau (name on first flyleaf; born 1430; owned (1560-1634) by the French family De Sobiras (inscription fol. 67); Théophile Belin, Catalogue 192 (1894), no. 3; H. B. Weaver sale (London, 1898, no. 147) to Goldschmidt; Quaritch, Catalogue 259 (1907), no. 5. Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in France, probably Paris, formerly thought to be from the Loire region, around 1460.
Incomplete text containing 25 tales.
Illumination: 1 large miniature, 40 smaller miniatures, numerous illuminated initials.
Illuminated by 2 artists, the most skillful labeled Follower of the Bedford Master or the Dunois Master.
Revised: 2015
Incomplete text containing 25 tales.
Illumination: 1 large miniature, 40 smaller miniatures, numerous illuminated initials.
Illuminated by 2 artists, the most skillful labeled Follower of the Bedford Master or the Dunois Master.
Revised: 2015
Script
bastarda
Language
French
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