Accession number
MS M.16
Object title
Noms, armes et blasons des chevaliers de la Table Ronde.
Created
France, ca. 1500
Binding
French red morocco, ca. 1750, with Roxburghe arms added ca. 1800-1810.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
85 leaves (1 column, 26 lines), bound : vellum, illuminated ; 270 x 190 mm
Provenance
Executed ca. 1500 for Louis de Hédouville, seigneur de Sandricourt, whose arms are painted on fol. 2v (or, in chief azure a leopard argent); Girardot de Préfond sale (Paris, 1757, no. 893); L.-J. Gaignat sale (Paris, 1769, no. 2270) to Debure le Jeune; duc de La Vallière sale (Paris, 1784), no. 3985) to Tilliard for Crevenna; his sale (Amsterdam, 1790, no. 5129); Duke of Roxburghe sale (London, 1812, no. 9113) to Triphook; Marquess of Blandford sale (London, 1819, no. 4241) to Payne; sale by Evans (London, June 5, 1823, no. 705) to Thorpe (cat., 1823, III, no. 16336); John Broadley sale (London, 1832, I, no. 558) to H. Bohn; D.S. Ker sale (London, Feb. 1, 1848, II, no. 1460) to Atkinson for the Earl of Ashburnham (Appendix, no. 163); his sale (London, 1899, lot no. 102) to Goldschmidt; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Goldschmidt in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in southern France, ca. 1500.
Heraldry book.
Decoration: coats of arms, flower border, illuminated initials.
Heraldry book.
Decoration: coats of arms, flower border, illuminated initials.
Script
bastarda
Language
French
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