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Bestiaire d'amour.

Accession number
MS M.459
Object title
Bestiaire d'amour.
Display Date
ca. 1290.
Created
Northern Italy, ca. 1290.
Binding
Previously: 20th-century green leather over boards by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; lettered on spine: Fournival - Bestiaire d'Amour - M 459. Present binding: rebound in the Thaw Conservation Center, 2011; sewn into handmade paper wrapper.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1911.
Description
32 leaves (1 column, 34 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 270 x 202 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Léon Gruel in 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. amorous verse; written and illuminated in northern Italy, ca. 1290.
Decoration: 3 large (2-column, half-page) drawings; 112 smaller drawings in the text; 3 inhabited initials; Northern Italian gothic style.
Contents
fols. 1r-1v: Preface (not by Richard de Fournival) -- fols. 2r-29v: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'Amour -- fols. 30r-32v: Aldobrandino da Siena, Regime du Corps (part iv).
Script
textura
Language
Old French
Century
Classification