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Contents:
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Christine de Pisan, Le Livre de la mutacion de Fortune
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Place of origin, date:
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Paris, Christine de Pisan (scribe of part), Master of the Epïtre d'Oth‚a (illuminator); 1404
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Material:
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Vellum, ff. 171, 335x267 (210x170) mm, 35-40 lines, littera cursiva, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt; with coat of arms of Stadholder William V
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Decoration:
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6 column miniatures (120/105x100/75 mm); decorated initials throughout
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Provenance:
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presented in 1404 by the author, Christine de Pisan, to John, Duke of Berry (inscription by librarian Jean Flamel; ownership inscription and signature by Jean de Berry, erased). Probably acquired by the Counts of Nassau Engelbert II (d. 1504) or Henri III (d. 1538); bydescent to the Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadholders, at The Hague; carried off in 1795 to Paris by the French and restituted to the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in 1816
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