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Legend of St. Margaret of Antioch in verse (MS M.779).

Accession number
MS M.779
Object title
Legend of St. Margaret of Antioch in verse (MS M.779).
Created
Belgium, ca. 1450.
Binding
Enclosed in a 17th- or 18th-century red velvet rolled case, edged with needlework and gold braid; in 1/4 red morocco over cardboard box made by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Description
1 roll : vellum, ill. ; 3925 x 101 mm
Provenance
Purchased from Goldschmidt of London in Feb. 1933.
Notes
Ms. saint's life; perhaps written and illuminated in Belgium, ca. 1450.
The roll consists of 6 vellum sheets pasted together; it contains 697 lines of verse followed by two short prayers.
Decoration: 1 miniature.
Script
bastarda
Language
French and Latin
Century
Classification