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De consolatione philosophiae.

Accession number
MS M.332
Object title
De consolatione philosophiae.
Created
France, between 1400 and 1450.
Binding
Blue velvet over 16th century calf; five 19th century bosses on each cover; four tie hinges, metal bound corners and metal clasp; a doeskin back secured by metal strips; in brown slipcase by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
161 leaves (2 columns, 27 and 45 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 290 x 270 mm
Provenance
Owned after 1478 by Antoine de Bourgogne (Grand bâtard; his autograph motto and signature on fol. 161: N.I.E. - NUL.NE.SY.FROTE); Adolphe de Bourgogne (his grandson, signature on fol. 161v: A. Nul ne laproce-de bourgogne); possibly in the library of the Cathedral Chapter of Beauvais; library of the Chateau de Troussures, near Beauvais (in 1869); purchased by J.Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) through De Tonnay from the Comte Marie Louis le Caron de Troussures in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms.; written and illuminated in France at the beginning of the 15th century.
Text: De consolatione philosophiae in the French translation of Jean de Meun, with a Latin gloss by William of Conches.
Scribe: Jean de Boutefeue; colophon on fol. 161 reads: Joh'. Boutefeue. scrip. Ist' Lib.
Decoration: 1 miniature, 6 historiated initials, 3 later border decorations with the arms and motto of Antoine de Bourgogne (1421-1504).
Script
textura
Language
Latin and French
Century
Classification