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Cas des nobles hommes et femmes malheureux

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Accession number: 
MS G.35
Title: 
Cas des nobles hommes et femmes malheureux
Created: 
France, probably Tours, ca. 1480.
Binding: 
Gold-tooled green morocco with silk doublures by Derôme le Jeune.
Credit: 
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description: 
366 leaves (2 columns, 43 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 383 x 276 mm
Provenance: 
Duc de la Vallière (?); Justin, Comte de MacCarthy Reagh; De Bure Frères, Paris; Robert Lang, London; his sale, London, R.H. Evans, Nov. 17, 1828, lot 212; Sir Thomas Phillipps (Ms. 3669); Katharine Fenwick; Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick; Alan George Fenwick; D.M. Colman; purchased in Aug. 1955 from Charles Stonehill Inc., New Haven for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes: 

Ms.; written and illuminated in France, probably Tours, ca. 1480.
Translation into French by Laurent de Premierfait.
Decoration: 9 large miniatures, illuminated borders, numerous illuminated initials.

Script: 
bastarda.
Language: 
French
Resources: 
Description/Bibliography
Century: 
15th century
Genres: 
Illuminated manuscripts
Miniatures (Illuminations)
Illuminated initials
Vellum (parchment)
Bastarda
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Manuscript
Department: 
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts