Accession number
MS M.771
Object title
Fiore di vertù (MS M.771).
Created
Central or Southeastern France, ca. 1460
Binding
French green morocco by Padeloup, ca. 1750.
Credit line
Purchased from Ellis, 1931.
Description
160 leaves (2 columns, 27 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 290 x 207 mm
Provenance
Written for Anne de Montmorency-Laval (1385-1466), Dame de Laval, Vitré, Gavre, Châ̂tillon-en-Vendelais, whose arms are covered over by those of François de Rochechouart (barry-nebuly of five argent and gules), who died in 1530; L.-J. Gaignat sale (Paris, 1769, I, no. 873) to Girardot de Préfond (his ms. catalogue, S. de Ricci Collection, p. 95, no. 374), who sold his library to Count de Mac-Carthy; his sale (Paris, 1817, no. 1446) to Chardin; his sale (Paris, Feb. 9, 1824, no. 626) to A.-A. Renouard; P.A. Hanrott sale (London, Aug. 5, 1833, II, no. 1282) to H. Bohn; George Folliott Collection, Vicars Cross Chester; sale of Mrs. Walker (London, May 12, 1930, no. 49, facs.) to Ellis; Ellis catalogue, 1930, no. 275, no.1; purchased from Ellis in 1931.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in France, probably central or southeastern France, ca. 1460.
The Chapelet des vertus is a late 14th cent. revision and translation of Fiore di virtù, a moralizing work on the vices and virtues.
Revised: 2017
Decoration: 5 miniatures surrounded by borders of vine, flowers, and grotesques in gold and colors, with arms of the Rochechouart family in the borders.
Artist: anonymous artist.
The Chapelet des vertus is a late 14th cent. revision and translation of Fiore di virtù, a moralizing work on the vices and virtues.
Revised: 2017
Decoration: 5 miniatures surrounded by borders of vine, flowers, and grotesques in gold and colors, with arms of the Rochechouart family in the borders.
Artist: anonymous artist.
Contents
fols. 1r-45r: Chapelet des vertus -- fols. 45v-154v: Guillaume de Tignonville, Dits moraux des philosophes -- fols. 154v-158r: Prayers in French, with the title: Comment nous deuons rendre graces a dieu pour les benefices qu'il nous donne -- fols. 158v-159v: Blank -- front flyleaf: Poem of the death of Anne de Bretagne in French (written after 1514).
Script
bastarda
Language
Middle French
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