Accession number:
MS M.277
Title:
Dits moraux des philosophes
Created:
France, possibly Touraine, between 1500 and 1525.
Binding:
English 19th-century faded rose morocco by Charles Lewis; with badge; device (Deus alit me) and initials (T.W.) of the Rev. Theodore Williams on the upper cover; his arms on the lower cover; lettered on back: Vita Philosoph - Codex Membran.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
67 leaves (1 column, 14 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 210 x 140 mm
Provenance:
Executed for Pierre Sala (1457-1529), seigneur d'Anticaille of Lyons, equerry in chief of Charles VIII, his signature and arms (azure a crescent argent) are discernable under the repainted arms (impaled azure six rings or, 3, 2, and 1; or on a chief sable three escallop shells argent) of the Husson Tonnerre Vauferrier family of Dauphiné; Rev. Theodore Williams; his sale (London, 1827, no. 342) to Thorpe; P.A. Hanrott; his sale (London, 1833, I, no. 2045) to H. Bohn; Quaritch, Catalogue 235 (1904), no. 116; purchased by J.Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. written and decorated in France, perhaps in Touraine, between 1500 and 1525.
Extracts from the Mer des hystoires, which is a translation of the Rudimentum novitiorum.
Decoration: 20 half-page portraits of philosophers; on fol. 1 the arms of Husson Tonnerre impaling Vauferrier painted over the shield of Pierre Sala; mottos of Sala (Qui voit clair ne se furvoye, Que va sauf il faut qu'il voye) painted in the borders of fol. 1v.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
French
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