Harvard University, MS Typ 555

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11022

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 555

Title:

C'est la Bible hystoriale en franc[ais

Author:

Moulins, Guyart des

Guyart des Moulins WIKIDATA

Artist:

Master of the Livre du Sacre de Charles V

Master of the Livre du Sacre WIKIDATA

Date:

1373.

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 v. (293, 274 leaves) : vellum ; 31 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Golit͡syn, Mikhail, kni͡azʹ

Mikhail Golitsyn WIKIDATA

Charles V, King of France, 1338-1380

Charles V of France WIKIDATA

Villeroy, François de Neufville, maréchal de, 1643-1730

François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi WIKIDATA

Gayot de la Rejasse, active 1697

Gayot de la Rejasse WIKIDATA

Perkins, Henry, 1776?-1855

Henry Perkins WIKIDATA

White, William Augustus, 1843-1927

William Augustus White WIKIDATA

Weld, F. M., Jr

Francis M. Weld WIKIDATA

Note:

The French text is written in a gothic book-hand in brownish and red ink in 2 ruled columns.
Vol. 2, ff. 1 (including a miniature on the recto) and 8 are replacement leaves of the 17th century.
There are 1 large (vol. 1, f. 1r) and 128 original small miniatures in tempera and gold, by more than one artist, one at least associated with the workshop of the Master of the Livre du Sacre de Charles V.
On fol. 273v there is an erased inscription of ownership by king Charles V and the date 1373 (Avril).
Title from caption, f. 1r.
Date from vol. 2, f. 274
Bound in 18th-century red morocco stamped with the arms of Cardinal François Paul de Neufville.
In 2 tray cases, 34 cm.
Charles V of France; Villars family, archbishops of Vienne, 1576-1693; Gayot de la Regasse, 1697 (inscription on front flyleaf of vol. 1); Maréchal de Villeroy, 1714; Prince Galitzin (his sale, Paris, 1825); Henry Perkins (his sale 3 June 1873); Mr. Benzon; Sheldon Walker; William Augustus White, 1895 (from Quaritch)
Gift of the estate of Francis Minot Weld, Jr., 1968.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Bible

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098501740203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4074280

Holding Institution:

Harvard University