Les décades : manuscript, [ca. 1415-1430], Volume 1
- Title
- Les décades : manuscript, [ca. 1415-1430], Volume 1
Alternative Title: Ab urbe condita. French, Volume 1 - Creator / Contributor
- Livy
- Place of Origin
- France
- Language
- French
- Description
- Extent: 2 v. (262, 191 leaves) : vellum, ill. ; 45 cm.
print - Subjects
- Rome--History
- Abstract
- Books I-X, and XXI-XXX of the French translation by Pierre Berseure (c. 1290-1362). The 2 vols. were brought together at an early date.
- Genre
- Manuscripts, Medieval-France-1400-1450.
Illuminations.
Rules (layout features)
Catchwords.
Pricking (parchment marking) - Notes
- Written in bâtarde script in 2 columns of 54 lines; 2 large frontispiece miniatures and 18 smaller miniatures, numerous foliate borders and decorated initials.
Vol. 1 (ca. 1425-30) : illumination attributed to a follower of the Bedford Master; v. 2 (ca. 1415) : illumination attributed to the Boucicaut Master and his workshop, and to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in late 18th-cent. russia, by James Scott of Edinburgh (label).
In a tray case, 49 cm.
MS Richardson 32. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version. - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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