Accession number:
MS M.906
Title:
Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque
Created:
France (Reims?), 9th and 16th centuries.
Binding:
Parchment binding, ca. 1600.
Description:
87 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum and paper ; 195 x 155 mm
Provenance:
Library of the Abbey of Fleury?; Pierre Daniel; François Pithou, who gave it to Pierre Pithou in 1595; Claude le Peletier (bookplate of the Le Peletier de Rosanbo [also spelled Rosambo] family, late 18th-early 19th century on front pastedown; an identical bookplate is found in Walters Art Gallery, MS W.20); Marquis de Rosambo at Dusmenil near Mantes; purchased from Rosambo with income from the Belle da Costa Green Fund in 1961.
Notes:
Ms. written in Reims?, France, in the 9th and the 16th century.
Texts: Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque (fol. 1-32 = 16th-century transcription on paper by Pierre Pithou; fols 33-72v = 9th-century copy on vellum); De Monstris (fols. 73-87) (Codex Pithoeanus)
Scribe: Pierre Pithou.
Script:
cursive and minuscule
Language:
Latin
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