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Chronicle of Flanders (MS M.435).

Accession number
MS M.435
Object title
Chronicle of Flanders (MS M.435).
Created
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1490.
Binding
Previously in old stamped leather with fleurs-de-lis; rebound in 1849 in blind-tooled English calf with diapered fleur-de-lis panels, simulating the original covers, pieces of which are pasted on inside covers (these 19th-century covers, spine, and endbands are housed in the object file); rebound in 2018 in full brown Hoffmann calfskin over laminated cotton boards with blind-tooled diapered fleur-de-lis panels simulating the original covers, rounded spine with five false bands, plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves, and decorative endbands.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
355 leaves (1 column, 21-22 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 280 x 210 mm
Provenance
Joseph Barrois (no. 495); sold in 1894 to Bertram Ashburham, Earl of Ashburnham (his sale, London, Sotheby's, 1901, no. 199) to Quaritch; Rodolphe Kann, Paris (cat. 1907, I, no. 69, facsimile); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Duveen Brothers in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. chronicle; written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1490.
Decoration: 7 full-page colored drawings, 7 marginal drawings.
Artist: attributed to the Master of the Bruges Chronicle of Flanders.
Script
bastarda
Language
Dutch, French, and Latin
Century
Classification