Accession number
MS G.23
Object title
La destruction de la noble cite de Thebes (MS G.23).
Created
France, March 9, 1474.
Binding
18th-century brown calf, gold-tooling on spine.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
157 leaves (1 column, 28-35 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 278 x 200 mm
Provenance
André Hachette; his sale, Paris, Librairie Giraud-Badin, Dec. 16, 1953, lot 9; purchased there by Arthur Rau, Paris for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in northern France, and completed on Mar. 9, 1474.
Texts: La destruction de la noble cite de Thebes (fol. 1-43); Histoire de la destruction de Troye (fol. 43v-157).
1 vellum leaf, fol. 1.
Scribe: Anthoine de Langle or Lancre . Signed in colophon on fol. 157v: Escript et finist le ixe jour de mars mil iiij et lxxiiij par la main Anthoine de langle (or lancre), script is not clear.
Decoration: 1 miniature, 48 colored pen drawings, 1 illuminated initial.
The source for Destruction de la Noble Cité de Thèbes is Histoire Ancienne jusqu'à César.
Texts: La destruction de la noble cite de Thebes (fol. 1-43); Histoire de la destruction de Troye (fol. 43v-157).
1 vellum leaf, fol. 1.
Scribe: Anthoine de Langle or Lancre . Signed in colophon on fol. 157v: Escript et finist le ixe jour de mars mil iiij et lxxiiij par la main Anthoine de langle (or lancre), script is not clear.
Decoration: 1 miniature, 48 colored pen drawings, 1 illuminated initial.
The source for Destruction de la Noble Cité de Thèbes is Histoire Ancienne jusqu'à César.
Script
bastarda
Language
French
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