Harvard University, MS Typ 41

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DS ID:

DS10614

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 41

Title:

Chronique du monde depuis la création, et des rois de France et d'Angleterre, jusqu'à l'an 1461

Date:

ca. 1461

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 roll : vellum ; 1171 x 63 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Crawford, William Horatio, 1815?-1888

William Horatio Crawford WIKIDATA

Note:

The French text is written in littera bastarda, in brown ink, in two columns, with many illuminated initials. There are 13 circular miniatures of biblical subjects at the beginning of the text. There are also 2 armorial drawings and 1 foliate border.
Consists of 17 skins pasted end to end.
In a red cloth box 76 x 17 x 13 cm.
Arms of Gavre de Liederkerke; Lakelands Library of W. H. Crawford (his sale, London, Sotheby's 12 Mar. 1891, lot 718). Gift of William King Richardson, 1943.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

scrolls (information artifacts)

Great Britain

France

World history

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095204340203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:48309543

Holding Institution:

Harvard University