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Manuscripts
De casibus vivorum illustrium in French : [manuscript]
1 of 6
- Date
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call number
- mssHM 936
- Provenance
- Monogram "S.S." linked by a cord in the border, f. 1. Said to have belonged to a Duke of Orleans (see below, Cat. 1909) but there is no evidence in the manuscript to support this. Belonged to Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876); at that time the manuscript had 234 leaves and began: //merusement regarder ces deux viellars qui e peine povoient parler qui avoient este faiz sans ouvrage de nature . . . (I, 2); his Catalogue illustré (Paris 1884) 6:45-46 n. 39, sold to Tumin. Acquired by Rushton M. Dorman of Chicago; his sale, Leavitt, New York, 5 April 1886 n. 23*. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Cat. (1909), p. 9; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. II, n. 2429 to Sessler. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
