Hagiography

Accession number: 
MS M.779
Title: 
Hagiography
Created: 
Belgium, ca. 1450.
Binding: 
Enclosed in a 17th- or 18th-century red velvet rolled case, edged with needlework and gold braid; in 1/4 red morocco over cardboard box made by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Description: 
1 roll : vellum, ill. ; 3925 x 101 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased from Goldschmidt of London in Feb. 1933.
Notes: 

Ms. saint's life; perhaps written and illuminated in Belgium, ca. 1450.
The roll consists of 6 vellum sheets pasted together; it contains 697 lines of verse followed by two short prayers.
Decoration: 1 miniature.

Script: 
bastarda
Language: 
French and Latin
Century: 
Classification: