Accession number
MS M.906
Object title
Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque (MS M.906).
Display Date
9th and 16th centuries.
Created
France (Reims?), 9th and 16th centuries.
Binding
Parchment binding, ca. 1600.
Description
87 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum and paper ; 195 x 155 mm
Provenance
Library of the Abbey of Fleury?; Pierre Daniel; François Pithou, who gave it to Pierre Pithou in 1595; Claude le Peletier (bookplate of the Le Peletier de Rosanbo [also spelled Rosambo] family, late 18th-early 19th century on front pastedown; an identical bookplate is found in Walters Art Gallery, MS W.20); Marquis de Rosambo at Dusmenil near Mantes; purchased from Rosambo with income from the Belle da Costa Green Fund in 1961.
Notes
Ms. written in Reims?, France, in the 9th and the 16th century.
Texts: Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque (fol. 1-32 = 16th-century transcription on paper by Pierre Pithou; fols 33-71v = 9th-century copy on vellum); De Monstris (fols. 72-87)
Scribe: Pierre Pithou (fols. 1-32).
Texts: Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque (fol. 1-32 = 16th-century transcription on paper by Pierre Pithou; fols 33-71v = 9th-century copy on vellum); De Monstris (fols. 72-87)
Scribe: Pierre Pithou (fols. 1-32).
Script
cursive and minuscule
Language
Latin
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