Accession number
MS M.277
Object title
Dits moraux des philosophes.
Display Date
between 1500 and 1525.
Created
France, possibly Touraine, between 1500 and 1525.
Binding
English 19th-century faded rose morocco by Charles Lewis; with badge; device (Deus alit me) and initials (T.W.) of the Rev. Theodore Williams on the upper cover; his arms on the lower cover; lettered on back: Vita Philosoph - Codex Membran.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
67 leaves (1 column, 14 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 210 x 140 mm
Provenance
Executed for Pierre Sala (1457-1529), seigneur d'Anticaille of Lyons, equerry in chief of Charles VIII, his signature and arms (azure a crescent argent) are discernable under the repainted arms (impaled azure six rings or, 3, 2, and 1; or on a chief sable three escallop shells argent) of the Husson Tonnerre Vauferrier family of Dauphiné; Rev. Theodore Williams; his sale (London, 1827, no. 342) to Thorpe; P.A. Hanrott; his sale (London, 1833, I, no. 2045) to H. Bohn; Quaritch, Catalogue 235 (1904), no. 116; purchased by J.Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in France, perhaps in Touraine, between 1500 and 1525.
Extracts from the Mer des hystoires, which is a translation of the Rudimentum novitiorum.
Decoration: 20 half-page portraits of philosophers; on fol. 1 the arms of Husson Tonnerre impaling Vauferrier painted over the shield of Pierre Sala; mottos of Sala (Qui voit clair ne se furvoye, Que va sauf il faut qu'il voye) painted in the borders of fol. 1v.
Extracts from the Mer des hystoires, which is a translation of the Rudimentum novitiorum.
Decoration: 20 half-page portraits of philosophers; on fol. 1 the arms of Husson Tonnerre impaling Vauferrier painted over the shield of Pierre Sala; mottos of Sala (Qui voit clair ne se furvoye, Que va sauf il faut qu'il voye) painted in the borders of fol. 1v.
Script
bastarda
Language
French
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