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.
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
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