La fleur des histoires
Accession number:
MS M.723
Title:
La fleur des histoires
Created:
France, probably Paris, ca. 1410-1412.
Binding:
By Auguste Petit; 19th-century French folio dark purple morocco with blind-tooled panels with gold fleurons at the corners and gilt dentelle doublure edging.
Description:
266 leaves (2 columns, 26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 310 x 220 mm
Provenance:
Librairie Henri Leclerc sale of the ducs de La Rochefoucauld at La Roche-Guyon, July 2, 1927, lot 5 (ex libris stamp on fol. 1, 135, 266); to Quaritch; purchased from Quaritch in 1927.
Notes:
Ms. historical narratives; written and illuminated in France, probably in Paris, ca. 1410-12.
Texts: Hayton, Fleur des histoires de la terre d'Orient (fol. 1-70); Marco Polo, Le livre des merveilles d'Asie (Travels of Marco Polo) (fol. 71-266).
Decoration: 41 miniatures.
Artist: Workshop of the Berry Apocalypse Master.
Revised: 2015
Script:
textura
Language:
French, the Picard dialect
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