Harvard University, MS Richardson 32

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10759

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 32

Title:

Les décades

Author:

Livy

Titus Livius WIKIDATA

Artist:

Boucicaut Master, active 15th century

Master of Boucicaut WIKIDATA

Bedford Master, active 1415-1430

Bedford Master WIKIDATA

Master of the Harvard Hannibal

Master of the Harvard Hannibal WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1415-1430

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 v. (262, 191 leaves) : vellum, ill. ; 45 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Lothian, Philip Henry Kerr, Marquis of, 1882-1940

Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in bâtarde script in 2 columns of 54 lines; 2 large frontispiece miniatures and 18 smaller miniatures, numerous foliate borders and decorated initials.
Vol. 1 (ca. 1425-30) : illumination attributed to a follower of the Bedford Master; v. 2 (ca. 1415) : illumination attributed to the Boucicaut Master and his workshop, and to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in late 18th-cent. russia, by James Scott of Edinburgh (label).
In a tray case, 49 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to the Marquess of Lothian, Newcastle Abbey, Scotland, before 1845; Lothian sale (New York, Anderson, 27-28 Jan. 1932, lot 12; bought by dealer Gabriel Wells; bought by Richardson in 1944.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Medieval

rules (layout features)

Rome (Empire)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098877070203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:19852111

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:12324465

Holding Institution:

Harvard University