Accession number
MS M.443
Object title
Metamorphoses.
Created
France, probably Paris, ca. 1410.
Binding
Fol. one-half brown levant morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey, 1941.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description
174 leaves (2 columns, 51-53 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 360 x 260 mm
Provenance
Joseph Barrois (ca. 1785-1855) collection, no. 37; purchased by the Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) in 1849; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 1901, no. 446, Ashburnham-Barrois catalogue, 1901, MS XXXVII) to Hollis; Tammaro De Marinis (catalogue 8, 1908, no. 51, plate 13); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in July 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in France, probably Paris, in the first decade of the 15th century.
Decoration: 1 miniature.
Decoration: 1 miniature.
Script
bastarda
Language
French
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