Vita Christi (Life of Christ)
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Accession number:
MS M.44
Title:
Vita Christi (Life of Christ)
Created:
France, perhaps Corbie, ca. 1175.
Binding:
Previously in French, 19th-century dark brown morocco blind-tooled with red morocco mosaic double, by Lortic; replaced with modern buckram clamshell binding, July, 2001.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description:
16 leaves, bound : vellum, col. ill. ; 340 x 200 mm
Provenance:
Said to have come from St. Martial of Limoges; owned ca. 1810 by Henry Martin; Comte Auguste de Bastard d'Estang (1792-1883) Collection; A. Firmin-Didot sale (Paris, 1879, no. 10) to Labitte; Quaritch, Catalogue 164 (1896), no. 1; Richard Bennett, his Catalogue, no. 101; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. life of Christ picturebook; illuminated in northern France, perhaps Corbie, ca. 1175.
Decoration: 30 full-page miniatures detatched perhaps from a psalter.
Revised: 2015
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