Accession number:
MS M.527
Title:
History and chronicles of Scotland.
Created:
Scotland, between 1531 and 1536.
Binding:
English brown morocco, ca. 1840.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description:
315 leaves (1 column, 39 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 290 x 190 mm
Provenance:
Made for and presented to King James V of Scotland in 1531; John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (1616-1682); the Earl of Kinnoul, of Dupplin Castle; his sale (London, Sotheby's, Nov. 7, 1911, lot 68) to Cleveland; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Pearson in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in Scotland, ca. 1531-1536.
Translator: John Bellenden.
Scribe: David Douglas.
Decoration: illuminated frontispiece with armorial and full border; 4 pages with full border decoration; 266 large illuminated initials, many inhabited.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
English
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