Result 1 of 1

 

Full reference manuscripts

The Hague, KB, 74 G 27

To report an error in the manuscript description or with the images, please click here.

Contents:

Christine de Pisan, L'Epistre d'Othea

Place of origin, date:

Auvergne(?); c. 1450-1475

Material:

Vellum, ff. 96, 199x134 (135x90) mm, 27 lines, littera cursiva, Binding: 20th-century brown leather (1973; blue silk binding as described by Byvanck 1924; now lost)

Decoration:

98 miniatures (100/40x90 mm); decorated initials with border decoration

Provenance:

possibly made for Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours (d. 1477). Probably acquired as part of the Orange-Nassau collection of Dillenburg Castle in Germany, which was transferred to The Hague in 1821

Annotation:

2 leaves with miniatures (containing the Letters 53 and 56) missing before ff. 51 and 53

Bibliography:

Literature about this manuscript

Image for this manuscript | images only | images and description | description only

© Koninklijke Bibliotheek National Library of the Netherlands