Accession number:
MS M.435
Title:
Chronicle of Flanders
Created:
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1490.
Binding:
Previously in old stamped leather with fleurs-de-lis; rebound in 1849 in blind-tooled English calf with diapered fleur-de-lis panels, simulating the original covers; pieces of the original covers are pasted on inside covers.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description:
355 leaves (1 column, 21-22 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 280 x 210 mm
Provenance:
Joseph Barrois (no. 495); sold in 1894 to Bertram Ashburham, Earl of Ashburnham (his sale, London, Sotheby's, 1901, no. 199) to Quaritch; Rodolphe Kann, Paris (cat. 1907, I, no. 69, facsimile); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Duveen Brothers in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. chronicle; written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1490.
Decoration: 7 full-page colored drawings, 7 marginal drawings.
Artist: attributed to the Master of the Bruges Chronicle of Flanders.
Script:
bastarda
Language:
Dutch, French, and Latin
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