Accession number
MS G.35
Object title
Cas des nobles hommes et femmes malheureux.
Created
France, probably Tours, ca. 1480.
Binding
Gold-tooled green morocco with silk doublures by Derôme le Jeune.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
366 leaves (2 columns, 43 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 383 x 276 mm
Provenance
Duc de la Vallière (?); Justin, Comte de MacCarthy Reagh; De Bure Frères, Paris; Robert Lang, London; his sale, London, R.H. Evans, Nov. 17, 1828, lot 212; Sir Thomas Phillipps (Ms. 3669); Katharine Fenwick; Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick; Alan George Fenwick; D.M. Colman; purchased in Aug. 1955 from Charles Stonehill Inc., New Haven for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms.; written and illuminated in France, probably Tours, ca. 1480.
Translation into French by Laurent de Premierfait.
Decoration: 9 large miniatures, illuminated borders, numerous illuminated initials.
Translation into French by Laurent de Premierfait.
Decoration: 9 large miniatures, illuminated borders, numerous illuminated initials.
Script
bastarda.
Language
French
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