Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Collection

Fonds français

Present shelfmark

ms. fr. 2810

Former shelfmark

François Ier 69 ; Rigault II 81 ; Dupuy II 42 ; Regius 8392

Total pages

IV, 301, II fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

fols 141r-225v; fols 268r-299v

Title on manuscript

Livre des merveilles

Title position

Cover page

Attributed Title

Language

Middle French

Script

Latin

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1410

Released place

France

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Manuscript commissioned by Jean sans Peur, Duke of Burgundy (beginning of the 15th century) Digitized manuscript: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000858n folios 141r-225v : Mandeville's Livre des Merveilles folios 268r-299v : Jean le Long's Livre des peregrinacions

Entry author

Florence Ninitte