Accession number:
MS M.301
Title:
Abbrevatio figuralis historie.
Created:
Toulouse, France, between 1300 and 1325.
Binding:
French 18th-century brown mottled calf; 3 red labels; in brown slip case.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
29 leaves (1 column, 40 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 310 x 210 mm
Provenance:
Cistercians of Calers, near Toulouse (inscription on fol. 1: Est abbatis de Calertio); Jacques-Auguste de Chevannes (1624-1690) (owned 1680); his nephew Thomas d'Islam (owned 1730); the Marquis de Miguieu (1754); his catalogue, 1760, no. 128; Nicolas Richard d'Ivry (bookplate dated Dijon 1809, arms: azure on a chief gules, three besants; motto: virtute non auro); Vicomte George-Marie-Louis de Hillerin (1842-1912); Ludovic Badin (1906); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Badin in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in Toulouse, France, early 14th century.
The manuscript is incomplete.
Decoration: 3 miniatures, 10 historiated medallions, 2 historiated initials, genalogical diagrams composed of small medallions with busts of historical figures, one marginal vignette.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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