Title from rubric (f. 1r, viewed 18 December 2020). Collation: Parchment, 351 leaves; 1-108 118−1(-6) 12-158 168−2(-1 and another leaf lacking) 17-228 238−1(-4) 24-328 338−1(-6) 34-448 458−4 (-5, 6-8 lacking or cancelled);contemporary foliation in roman numerals in red ink (1-95), later (17th-century?) foliation in roman numerals in black ink (96-351), upper center, 1-26, 26, 28-44, [45], 46-85, [87], 88-226, 228-291, 291-344, 344-351... Layout: Written in two columns of 37 lines; ruled in faint ink. Script: Written in lettre bâtarde. Decoration: Miniatures attributable to the workshop of the Master of Jeanne de Laval, possibly in Poitou (catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale); opening leaf with 9-line initial, 18-line column miniature of the creation of Adam, and full floral and acanthus border with 2 coats of arms (f. 1r); 2 extra-wide column miniatures in color and liquid gold (Alexander and a two-headed monster, 19 lines... Binding: Late 18th-century French morocco, gilt, orange silk pastedowsn and endleaves, gilt edges (catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale; not included in digital facsimile). Origin: Written in France, probably in Poitou and probably in the 1470s (catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale). Dimensions of original manuscript: 324 x 224 (212 x 153) mm. Originally owned by Yves du Fou, knight, counsellor and chamberlain to Louis XI, Grand Veneur de France (1472), Governor of the Dauphiné (1457), landowner in Brittany and Poitou (Sotheby's). Formerly owned by Alexander Douglas, tenth duke of Hamilton (HB monogram described in catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale). Consigned by descendants of Douglas as part of the Hamilton Palace collection of manuscripts to Sotheby's for sale at auction in 1882, lot 243. Sold as part of the Hamilton Palace collection of manuscripts, purchased en bloc by the Prussian government prior to the scheduled sale in 1882. Sold by the Prussian government with 60 other Hamilton manuscripts to antiquarian bookseller and publisher Karl J. Trübner, Strasbourg, after 1883. Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of this group of Hamilton manuscripts from Berlin to London booksellers and publishers Robson & Kerslake, 23 May 1889, lot 47. Formerly owned by John William Pease (1820-1900, Wardington, Oxfordshire) and by descent by his grandson, Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, second Lord Wardington (gilt booklabel inside lower cover described in catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale). Gift of Lord Wardington to the bookseller Charles W. Traylen (Guildford, Surrey) in exchange for an atlas, circa 1980. Sold by Charles W. Traylen to the bookseller Heribert Tenschert (then in Rotthalmünster, Germany; later in Ramsen, Switzerland). Appears in Heribert Tenschert's Catena Aurea (catalog 16, 1984), no. 10 with plate on back cover. Sold at auction at Sotheby's to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 26 November 1985, lot 107. Sold by Lawrence J. Schoenberg at auction at Sotheby's to an unknown purchaser, 6 July 2006, lot ?
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