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Johannes Januensis, Catholicon

Place of origin, date:

Paris, Master of the Jean de Mandeville of Charles V (Paris, BN, n.a.gr. 4515; illuminator); c. 1370-1380

Material:

Vellum, ff. 415, 420x280 (300x190) mm, 68 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; blind and gilt

Decoration:

1 column miniature (84x87 mm); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 1r, 7v, 18v, 41r, 57r, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes (ff. 2r, 2v, 3v, 4r, 6r, etc.)

Provenance:

presented in 1414 by Johannes Chomery and Matheus Savary to the Premonstratensians at Cuissy near Laon. Claude-Robert Jardel, canon at Soissons (1712-1788). Purchased in 1829 from antiquarian bookseller Tilliard Frères, Paris, by W.H.J. van Westreenen

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