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Livres de bonnes moeurs.

Accession number
MS M.734
Object title
Livres de bonnes moeurs.
Display Date
ca. 1420.
Created
Rouen, France, ca. 1420.
Binding
Modern French brown morocco over original boards; covers stamped with a scroll containing a dragon alternating with a daisy; imitating 15th-century design; in brown morocco case.
Description
82 leaves (2 columns, 26-28 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 240 x 180 mm
Provenance
Christie's sale (London, Mar. 2, 1922, lot 135) to Winter; J. Pearson sale (London, Dec. 7, 1924, lot 887) to Dobell; purchased from L.C. Harper in 1928.
Notes
Ms. moralistic treatise; written and illuminated in France, probably Rouen, ca. 1420.
Decoration: 1 large miniature; French Gothic style.
Contents
fols. 1r-81v: Jacques Legrand, Livre de bonnes moeurs -- fols. 82r-82v: Blank save for a date, 1638, and a few isolated, contemporaneous words or phrases.
Script
bastarda
Language
Middle French
Century
Classification