Accession number
MS M.422
Object title
Fables and other poems (MS M.422).
Created
Southern France, ca. 1515.
Binding
19th-century dark green morocco with gilt-tooled bands inside covers; signed Bauzonnet-Trautz.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description
24 leaves (1 column, 8, 10, and 11 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 140 mm
Provenance
Made for Louise de Savoie, duchess of Angoulême (1476-1531) (arms and portrait on fol. 1); owned in the 16th century by Armand (signature on fol. 3v); J.-B. Huzard (1755-1838) (signature on fol. 1); his sale, Paris, 1842, v. 1, no. 4444; owned in 1843 by T(ripier?) who had it bound by Bauzonnet-Trautz (inscriptions on front and back flyleaves); Baron Jérôme-Frédéric Pichon (1812-1896); his sale, Paris, 1869, no. 473) to Bachelin-Deflorenne; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in July 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in southern France, ca. 1515.
Decoration: 18 full-page miniatures, 18 wreaths enclosing text.
Decoration: 18 full-page miniatures, 18 wreaths enclosing text.
Script
cursive script
Language
French
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