Accession number:
MS M.705
Title:
Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance
Created:
Angers, France, between 1455 and 1460.
Binding:
English 19th-century violet morocco lettered: traite entre laure devote MS; gilt-tooled in the style of Charles Lewis; in red cloth slipcase.
Credit:
Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., 1926.
Description:
70 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 178 x 128 mm
Provenance:
Adolphe Audenet Collection (not traced in his sales, Paris 1839, 1841 and 1874); Ellis and Elvey, cat., Nov. 1891, no. 609; Mrs. George Gordon King sale (New York, May 5, 1926, no. 144, facs.) to Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. (dealer); purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. in 1926.
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in Angers, France, ca. 1455-1460.
Dedication to Jean Bernard (1386-1466), archbishop of Tours and confessor of King René, fol. 1-2v.
Decoration: 9 miniatures.
Artists: Dedication Master, who executed the dedication picture on fol. 1, and the Master of Jeanne de Laval who did the remaining miniatures.
The illustrations by the Master of Jeanne de Laval are thought to have been copied from a lost ms illustrated by Barthélemy van Eyck for René.
Revised: 2015
Script:
bastarda
Language:
French
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