Accession number:
MS M.457
Title:
Grand Coutoumier de Normandie.
Created:
Rouen, France, ca. 1460.
Binding:
16th-century (ca. 1560) French red morocco over pasteboard, gold-tooled; frame and some of the interlace painted black; traces of two pairs of fabric ties on the fore-edge; edges gilt.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description:
181 leaves (1 column, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 294 x 219 mm
Provenance:
Owned by Charles Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, marshal of France (1684-1761); not in his sale (Paris, Mar. 15, 1762); comte de Toustain sale (London, July 9, 1884, no. 176) to Quaritch, catalogue 359 (1884), no. 25005; 369 (1886), no. 35723; 103 (1890), no. 83; Ch. Lormier sale (Paris, 1901, I, no. 141) to Morgand; Leboeuf de Montgermont Collection (catalogue, 1914, VII, no. 136); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Rahir of Paris in 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. customary law book; calendar, use of Rouen; written and illuminated in Rouen, France, ca. 1460.
Decoration: 8 miniatures with full-page borders, 24 calendar illustrations (4 of them modern additions on fol. 2).
Artist: Master of the Rouen Échevinage (formerly known as the Master of the Geneva Latini) except for the calendar illustrations by the workshop.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Latin and French
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