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Les chevalier aux dames (MS M.344).

Accession number
MS M.344
Object title
Les chevalier aux dames (MS M.344).
Created
Lorraine, France, 1477.
Binding
Brown Russian leather by Bauzonnet, ca. 1835-1840.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1908.
Description
94 leaves (1 column, 28 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 210 x 130 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1908; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms.; written and illuminated in Lorraine, France, in 1477.
Dated in the colophon on fol. 94v; watermarks in the paper assigned in Briquet to the duchy of Bar in the province of Lorraine; attributed to a paper factory at Lisle-en-Rigault, second half of the 15th century.
Decoration: 17 small miniatures.
Script
bastarda
Language
French
Century
Classification