Bestiary
Accession number:
MS M.459
Title:
Bestiary
Created:
Northern Italy, ca. 1290.
Binding:
Previously: 20th-century green leather over boards by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; lettered on spine: Fournival - Bestiaire d'Amour - M 459. Present binding: rebound in the Thaw Conservation Center, 2011; sewn into handmade paper wrapper.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1911.
Description:
32 leaves (1 column, 34 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 270 x 202 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Léon Gruel in 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. amorous verse; written and illuminated in northern Italy, ca. 1290.
Decoration: 3 large (2-column, half-page) drawings; 112 smaller drawings in the text; 3 inhabited initials; Northern Italian gothic style.
Script:
textura
Language:
Old French
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