Livre du Lancelot du Lac: three miniatures

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Title: Livre du Lancelot du Lac: three miniatures
Published / Created: [ca. 1440]
Publication Place: Paris
Abstract: Three miniatures, on vellum, from the copy of the Livre du Lancelot du Lac illustrated by the Dunois Master. They depict: 1) the Duke of Clarence and esquire, meeting a knight cutting off a woman's hair; 2) King Baudemagnus leading the battle against the Romans; 3) Lancelot's arrival at the city of Gorre
Description: In Middle French.
Binding: individually mounted.
Provenance: Purchsed from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 3 items : 100 mm x100 mm and smaller
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Lancelot (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Arthurian romances in art
Subjects: Lancelot (Legendary character)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Arthurian romances in art
Arthurian romances in art > Early works to 1800
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Livre du Lancelot du Lac: three miniatures (Takamiya MS 99). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.