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Seleucus Callinicus and Antiochus Hierax before Boccaccio, Deaths of Seleucus and Antiochus.

Accession number
MS M.1057
Object title
Seleucus Callinicus and Antiochus Hierax before Boccaccio, Deaths of Seleucus and Antiochus.
Created
Loire River Valley, France, ca. 1470-1480
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, special gift of Mrs. Roy O'Connor, 1984.
Description
1 single leaf (2 columns, 42 lines) : vellum, ill. ; 295 x 256 mm
Provenance
Florence, John Edward L. Murray; Milan, Ulrico Hoepli, Apr. 7-9, 1927, lot 324; Jakob Hirsch, Geneva; Herbert Straus, Therese K. Straus.
Notes
Ms. leaf cut from a French translation of De casibus virorum illustrium from the Latin of Laurent de Premierfait that was written and illuminated in the Loire River Valley, France, ca. 1470-1480.
Decoration: 1 large miniature, 1 full illuminated border, illuminated initial, 3 filigree initials.
Artist: a follower of the Coëtivy Master.
Script
bastarda
Language
Middle French
Century
Classification