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Les chevalier aux dames

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Accession number: 
MS M.344
Title: 
Les chevalier aux dames
Created: 
Lorraine, France, 1477.
Binding: 
Brown Russian leather by Bauzonnet, ca. 1835-1840.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1908.
Description: 
94 leaves (1 column, 28 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 210 x 130 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1908; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms.; written and illuminated in Lorraine, France, in 1477.
Dated in the colophon on fol. 94v; watermarks in the paper assigned in Briquet to the duchy of Bar in the province of Lorraine; attributed to a paper factory at Lisle-en-Rigault, second half of the 15th century.
Decoration: 17 small miniatures.

Script: 
bastarda
Language: 
French
Resources: 
Description/Bibliography
Century: 
15th century
Genres: 
Dated manuscripts
Illuminated manuscripts
Miniatures (Illuminations)
Paper
Watermarks (Paper)
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Manuscript
Department: 
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts