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The Hague, RMMW, 10 A 17

Contents:

Jean de Courcy, La Bouquechardière

Place of origin, date:

Rouen (text); castle of Carlat, Master of Jacques d'Armagnac (illuminator); before 1476

Material:

Vellum, ff. 365, 420x319 (280x196) mm, 54 lines, littera hybrida, Binding: 18th-century red leather; gilt

Decoration:

6 two-column miniatures (173/158x200/197 mm); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 1r, 2r, 2v, 3v, 4r, etc.)
Added: coats of arms, 2 in decorated initials, 1 in the margin

Provenance:

made for Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours (1433-1477; anagram); seized in 1476 after the capture of Jacques d'Armagnac by Tanguy du Chastel (d. 1477; coats of arms of him and his wife Jeanne Raguenel de Malestroit). Anne de Bavière, Princesse Palatine at the Castleof Anet; purchased in 1724 at the sale of this library at P. Gandouin, Paris (15 Nov.) by Cardinal G. Du Bois; sale in 1725 of Du Bois and J.P. Bignon at J. Swart & P. de Hondt, The Hague (cat. 27 Aug., pt. 1, no. 5394). J.H. van Wassenaer-van Obdam; his sale in 1750 at P. de Hondt,The Hague (cat. 10 Aug., p. 56 no. 761). Gerard Meerman (1722-1771) of Rotterdam, later The Hague; by descent to his son Johan Meerman (1753-1815); purchased in 1824 at the Meerman sale (cat. 8 June-3 July, no. 849) by Willem H.J. van Westreenen van Tiellandt (1783-1848) of TheHague; by legacy to the kingdom of the Netherlands in 1848

Annotation:

the borders of ff. 6r, 133v, 244r contain a banderole with the letters IOA - NTE - MSR - VDF: anagram of `Fortune d'amis', the motto of Jacques d'Armagnac

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