Accession number
MS M.820
Object title
Livres du roy Modus et de la royne Racio (MS M.820).
Created
Lyon, France, ca. 1465.
Binding
Red morocco gilt, French, 18th century.
Credit line
Purchased, 1947.
Description
160 leaves (2 columns, 38-40 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 295 x 223 mm
Provenance
Owned early in the 16th century by Madelaigne de Beauvoir, her name on fol. 160; library of Sir Thomas Phillipps at Cheltenham (Ms. 3641); purchased from William H. Robinson, London, Jan. 1947.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Lyon, France, ca. 1465.
Manuscript may be written in the Picard dialect.
Decoration: 71 miniatures, all but one tinted grisaille.
Artist: 2 distinct artists, one known as the Master of the Vienna Roman de la Rose (Öst Nationalbibl., Cod 2568). Elsig identified this artist as Jean Hortart (?).
Fol. 160, with Madelaigne de Beauvoir's name and two prayers in Latin, was added to the manuscript.
Revised: 2015
Manuscript may be written in the Picard dialect.
Decoration: 71 miniatures, all but one tinted grisaille.
Artist: 2 distinct artists, one known as the Master of the Vienna Roman de la Rose (Öst Nationalbibl., Cod 2568). Elsig identified this artist as Jean Hortart (?).
Fol. 160, with Madelaigne de Beauvoir's name and two prayers in Latin, was added to the manuscript.
Revised: 2015
Script
bastarda
Language
Middle French
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