Accession number
MS M.967
Object title
Lapidary (MS M.967).
Display Date
between 1450 and 1499.
Created
France, between 1450 and 1499.
Binding
Early 18th-century French red morocco with gold-tooling, in the style of Louis XIV.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1975.
Description
58 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 122 x 80 mm.
Provenance
Munich, Hartung & Karl (June 2, 1975, lot 16).
Notes
Ms. lapidary; written and decorated in France in the second half of the 15th century.
The manuscript, which is incomplete, begins with three pages of an astrological text in latin: "Principium vitale ac potestetatem in eo occidentalis. In fine sagittarii;" the lapidary follows on fol. 2v: "Ce sont les noms des pierres precieuses et le nombre parfait de lxii ou nom des lxii noms de dieu nostre seigneur"--Cf. Eighteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977.
Decoration: initials in red and blue.
The manuscript, which is incomplete, begins with three pages of an astrological text in latin: "Principium vitale ac potestetatem in eo occidentalis. In fine sagittarii;" the lapidary follows on fol. 2v: "Ce sont les noms des pierres precieuses et le nombre parfait de lxii ou nom des lxii noms de dieu nostre seigneur"--Cf. Eighteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977.
Decoration: initials in red and blue.
Script
bastarda
Language
French
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