Accession number
MS M.266
Object title
De la première bataille punique.
Display Date
between 1445 and 1450.
Created
France or Belgium, between 1445 and 1450.
Binding
Limp vellum with ties by Rivière (perhaps twentieth century); in maroon slip case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
94 leaves (1 column, 29 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 250 x 160 mm
Provenance
Arms of an early owner on fol. 88v and 92v (quarterly sable and argent?); P. Aubert (ca. 1500, signature on flyleaf); Pickering; sold to the Earl of Ashburnham Dec. 18, 1847; Ashburnham Collection (appendix, no. 156); H. Yates Thompson; his sale (London, May 14, 1902, no. 1 and plate) to Quaritch, catalogue 235 (Nov. 1904), no. 109; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in northern France or Belgium, ca. 1445-1450.
Translated from his De primo bello punico.
Texts: De la première bataille punique (fol. 1-88r); four anonymous French poems (fol. 88v-94v).
Decoration: 14 half-page miniatures.
Artist: Mansel Master
Translated from his De primo bello punico.
Texts: De la première bataille punique (fol. 1-88r); four anonymous French poems (fol. 88v-94v).
Decoration: 14 half-page miniatures.
Artist: Mansel Master
Script
bastarda
Language
French
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