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Livre des cleres et nobles femmes.

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
Script
bastarda
Language
French
Century
Classification