Accession number
MS M.804
Object title
Chroniques (MS M.804).
Created
France, probably, Paris, ca. 1412-1415
Binding
Previously in vellum; rebound in 1948 by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in natural levant morocco with dark brown inlays along the edges.
Credit line
Purchased through the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund, 1938.
Description
363 leaves (2 columns; book 1 = 48-50 lines, book 2 = 38 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 365 x 270 mm
Provenance
Executed for Pierre de Fontenoy, seigneur de Rance (ca. 1360-1427), arms and motto nulle autre included in the decoration; given ca. 1590 by Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst (the Earl of Dorset) to William Cecil, Lord Burghley; inherited by Robert Bruce, first Earl of Ailesbury (d.1685); his sale (London, Nov. 21, 1687, p. 87, n. 2) to Sir Thomas Mostyn; Lord Mostyn Collection (ex-libris of Gloddaeth Library inside cover); his sale (Sotheby's, London, July 13, 1920, lot 44, facsimile) to Alice Millard (1873-1938), who offered it to Belle Greene, who turned her down; Millard sold it to William Clarkson Van Antwerp; his sale (New York, American Art Association, 1922, lot 19, facsimiles) to J.F. Drake for Cortland F. Bishop; his sale (New York, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, part. I , April 5-8, 1938, lot 830); purchased at this sale for the Morgan Library through the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund.
Notes
Ms. history; written and illuminated in France, probably Paris, ca. 1412-1415.
Decoration: 2 large half-page miniatures, 29 small square miniatures, figured borders and heraldic representations in marginal spaces.
Book 2 starts on fol. 265.
Artist: according to Millard Meiss the illumination on fol. 265-315 is by an associate of the Master of the Berry Apocalypse, denominated the Boethius illuminator; the remaining illumination executed by an associate--Cf. PML files.
Revised: 2015
Decoration: 2 large half-page miniatures, 29 small square miniatures, figured borders and heraldic representations in marginal spaces.
Book 2 starts on fol. 265.
Artist: according to Millard Meiss the illumination on fol. 265-315 is by an associate of the Master of the Berry Apocalypse, denominated the Boethius illuminator; the remaining illumination executed by an associate--Cf. PML files.
Revised: 2015
Script
bastarda
Language
Middle French (Burgundian dialect)
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