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La fleur des histoires de la terre d'Orient by Hayton and Marco Polo's Le livre des merveilles d'Asie.

Accession number
MS M.723
Object title
La fleur des histoires de la terre d'Orient by Hayton and Marco Polo's Le livre des merveilles d'Asie.
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
Century
Classification