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Le livre des trois vertus.
 
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Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 / rank
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Property / associated name as recorded: Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
Yemeniz, Nicolas, 1775-1871
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Yemeniz, Nicolas, 1775-1871 / rank
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Property / associated name as recorded: Yemeniz, Nicolas, 1775-1871 / qualifier
 
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Rosenthal, Erwin, 1889-1981
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Rosenthal, Erwin, 1889-1981 / rank
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Manuscripts, Medieval--France
 
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Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--France / qualifier
 
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Gothic scripts
 
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Inscriptions
 
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Bookplates
 
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Illuminations
 
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Digital images
 
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Manuscripts, French--France
 
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Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, French--France / qualifier
 
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
 
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Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
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frm
 
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ca. 1405?
 
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Paris]
 
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Extent: 98 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 287 x 195 (182 x 103) mm
 
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parchment, ill.
 
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Property / note
Ms. codex.
 
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Property / note
In French.
 
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Title from incipits on fol. 1 and 3.
 
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
 
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Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (2 modern paper leaves + 1 parchment leaf) + 98 + iii (2 modern paper leaves + 1 parchment leaf) ; 1-118 1210 ; quires signed in modern arabic pencil, lower left corner of the first recto of each quire. Catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
 
Property / note: Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (2 modern paper leaves + 1 parchment leaf) + 98 + iii (2 modern paper leaves + 1 parchment leaf) ; 1-118 1210 ; quires signed in modern arabic pencil, lower left corner of the first recto of each quire. Catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page. / rank
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Layout: Two columns, 31 lines; bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
 
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Secundo folio: ... baille et tenu a ...
 
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Script: Bâtarde in brown ink with red rubrics.
 
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Decoration: Two-line gold initials throughout filled with salmon and white tracery outlined with blue, or vice versa; six-line initials at section incipits, on fol. 1, 52, and 74 in blue with white tracery on gold, with vines and leafy infill in colors, full border of spindly vines and trefoil leaves in gold and colors, mauve and blue bars circumscribing the text, with white tracery. Half-page...
 
Property / note: Decoration: Two-line gold initials throughout filled with salmon and white tracery outlined with blue, or vice versa; six-line initials at section incipits, on fol. 1, 52, and 74 in blue with white tracery on gold, with vines and leafy infill in colors, full border of spindly vines and trefoil leaves in gold and colors, mauve and blue bars circumscribing the text, with white tracery. Half-page... / rank
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Property / note
Binding: Ca. 19th-century red morocco binding with gilt-fillet border and board edges, gilt filigree turn-ins, purple watered silk endpapers and conjugate flyleaves, two glossy paper flyleaves at front and back, spint gilt in compartments, "LE LIVRE/ DES/ VERTUS" and "MANUSCRIT/ SUR/ VELLIN," all edges gilt.
 
Property / note: Binding: Ca. 19th-century red morocco binding with gilt-fillet border and board edges, gilt filigree turn-ins, purple watered silk endpapers and conjugate flyleaves, two glossy paper flyleaves at front and back, spint gilt in compartments, "LE LIVRE/ DES/ VERTUS" and "MANUSCRIT/ SUR/ VELLIN," all edges gilt. / rank
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Property / note
Origin: The primary script of this manuscript has been attributed by Nadia Margolis to the "R" hand, "one of the three major [scribes] in Christine's atelier as identified by Gilbert Ouy and Christine Reno," with "interventions by the 'X' hand" (thought by some to be Christine's own) on several leaves. The "X" hand, if not Christine's, is certainly the copyist of Harley MS 4431 and Paris, BN...
 
Property / note: Origin: The primary script of this manuscript has been attributed by Nadia Margolis to the "R" hand, "one of the three major [scribes] in Christine's atelier as identified by Gilbert Ouy and Christine Reno," with "interventions by the 'X' hand" (thought by some to be Christine's own) on several leaves. The "X" hand, if not Christine's, is certainly the copyist of Harley MS 4431 and Paris, BN... / rank
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Provenance: 15th-century ownership inscription on fol. 98v: "Ce livre contient xxiiii vingt [i.e. 80 + 20] feulies et une ystoyre. Et appertient a monseigneur de sainct vallier qui le trouvera le luy rende et parera la payne dy celluy qui le trouvera." ("This book contains 100 leaves and one story. And it belongs to Monseigneur de Saint-Vallier. May whoever finds it return it to him, and he...
 
Property / note: Provenance: 15th-century ownership inscription on fol. 98v: "Ce livre contient xxiiii vingt [i.e. 80 + 20] feulies et une ystoyre. Et appertient a monseigneur de sainct vallier qui le trouvera le luy rende et parera la payne dy celluy qui le trouvera." ("This book contains 100 leaves and one story. And it belongs to Monseigneur de Saint-Vallier. May whoever finds it return it to him, and he... / rank
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Property / note
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Erwin Rosenthal in 1943 (SDBM 57051). BPL plate inside front cover.
 
Property / note: Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Erwin Rosenthal in 1943 (SDBM 57051). BPL plate inside front cover. / rank
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Call number: MS f Med.101.
 
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Former call number: MS 1528.
 
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Bibliography: Charity C. Willard, "The 'Three Virtues' of Christine de Pisan," Boston Public Library quarterly (1950): 291-305; Charity C. Willard and Eric Hicks. "Le livre des trois vertus: Christine de Pizan" (Paris, 1989), edition based on this manuscript; N. Margolis, (review of Willard and Hicks), Speculum 67 (1992): 761-764; See also G. Ouy and C. Reno, "Identification des autographes de...
 
Property / note: Bibliography: Charity C. Willard, "The 'Three Virtues' of Christine de Pisan," Boston Public Library quarterly (1950): 291-305; Charity C. Willard and Eric Hicks. "Le livre des trois vertus: Christine de Pizan" (Paris, 1989), edition based on this manuscript; N. Margolis, (review of Willard and Hicks), Speculum 67 (1992): 761-764; See also G. Ouy and C. Reno, "Identification des autographes de... / rank
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28 November 2023
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Property / IIIF manifest
 
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Property / title as recorded
 
Le livre des trois vertus.
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Property / associated name as recorded
 
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
Property / associated name as recorded: Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / associated name as recorded: Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
 
Yemeniz, Nicolas, 1775-1871
Property / associated name as recorded: Yemeniz, Nicolas, 1775-1871 / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / associated name as recorded: Yemeniz, Nicolas, 1775-1871 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Yemeniz, Nicolas, 1775-1871 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
 
Rosenthal, Erwin, 1889-1981
Property / associated name as recorded: Rosenthal, Erwin, 1889-1981 / rank
 
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Property / associated name as recorded: Rosenthal, Erwin, 1889-1981 / qualifier
 
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Illuminations
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Digital images
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Manuscripts, French--France
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Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, French--France / qualifier
 
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Gothic scripts
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Inscriptions
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Bookplates
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Manuscripts, Medieval--France
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Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--France / qualifier
 
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
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frm
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ca. 1405?
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Property / production date as recorded: ca. 1405? / qualifier
 
Property / production date as recorded: ca. 1405? / qualifier
 
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Paris]
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Property / physical description
 
Extent: 98 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 287 x 195 (182 x 103) mm
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parchment, ill.
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Property / note
 
Ms. codex.
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In French.
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Title from incipits on fol. 1 and 3.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (2 modern paper leaves + 1 parchment leaf) + 98 + iii (2 modern paper leaves + 1 parchment leaf) ; 1-118 1210 ; quires signed in modern arabic pencil, lower left corner of the first recto of each quire. Catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
Property / note: Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (2 modern paper leaves + 1 parchment leaf) + 98 + iii (2 modern paper leaves + 1 parchment leaf) ; 1-118 1210 ; quires signed in modern arabic pencil, lower left corner of the first recto of each quire. Catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page. / rank
 
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Layout: Two columns, 31 lines; bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
Property / note: Layout: Two columns, 31 lines; bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet. / rank
 
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Secundo folio: ... baille et tenu a ...
Property / note: Secundo folio: ... baille et tenu a ... / rank
 
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Script: Bâtarde in brown ink with red rubrics.
Property / note: Script: Bâtarde in brown ink with red rubrics. / rank
 
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Decoration: Two-line gold initials throughout filled with salmon and white tracery outlined with blue, or vice versa; six-line initials at section incipits, on fol. 1, 52, and 74 in blue with white tracery on gold, with vines and leafy infill in colors, full border of spindly vines and trefoil leaves in gold and colors, mauve and blue bars circumscribing the text, with white tracery. Half-page...
Property / note: Decoration: Two-line gold initials throughout filled with salmon and white tracery outlined with blue, or vice versa; six-line initials at section incipits, on fol. 1, 52, and 74 in blue with white tracery on gold, with vines and leafy infill in colors, full border of spindly vines and trefoil leaves in gold and colors, mauve and blue bars circumscribing the text, with white tracery. Half-page... / rank
 
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Binding: Ca. 19th-century red morocco binding with gilt-fillet border and board edges, gilt filigree turn-ins, purple watered silk endpapers and conjugate flyleaves, two glossy paper flyleaves at front and back, spint gilt in compartments, "LE LIVRE/ DES/ VERTUS" and "MANUSCRIT/ SUR/ VELLIN," all edges gilt.
Property / note: Binding: Ca. 19th-century red morocco binding with gilt-fillet border and board edges, gilt filigree turn-ins, purple watered silk endpapers and conjugate flyleaves, two glossy paper flyleaves at front and back, spint gilt in compartments, "LE LIVRE/ DES/ VERTUS" and "MANUSCRIT/ SUR/ VELLIN," all edges gilt. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Origin: The primary script of this manuscript has been attributed by Nadia Margolis to the "R" hand, "one of the three major [scribes] in Christine's atelier as identified by Gilbert Ouy and Christine Reno," with "interventions by the 'X' hand" (thought by some to be Christine's own) on several leaves. The "X" hand, if not Christine's, is certainly the copyist of Harley MS 4431 and Paris, BN...
Property / note: Origin: The primary script of this manuscript has been attributed by Nadia Margolis to the "R" hand, "one of the three major [scribes] in Christine's atelier as identified by Gilbert Ouy and Christine Reno," with "interventions by the 'X' hand" (thought by some to be Christine's own) on several leaves. The "X" hand, if not Christine's, is certainly the copyist of Harley MS 4431 and Paris, BN... / rank
 
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Property / note
 
Provenance: 15th-century ownership inscription on fol. 98v: "Ce livre contient xxiiii vingt [i.e. 80 + 20] feulies et une ystoyre. Et appertient a monseigneur de sainct vallier qui le trouvera le luy rende et parera la payne dy celluy qui le trouvera." ("This book contains 100 leaves and one story. And it belongs to Monseigneur de Saint-Vallier. May whoever finds it return it to him, and he...
Property / note: Provenance: 15th-century ownership inscription on fol. 98v: "Ce livre contient xxiiii vingt [i.e. 80 + 20] feulies et une ystoyre. Et appertient a monseigneur de sainct vallier qui le trouvera le luy rende et parera la payne dy celluy qui le trouvera." ("This book contains 100 leaves and one story. And it belongs to Monseigneur de Saint-Vallier. May whoever finds it return it to him, and he... / rank
 
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Property / note
 
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Erwin Rosenthal in 1943 (SDBM 57051). BPL plate inside front cover.
Property / note: Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Erwin Rosenthal in 1943 (SDBM 57051). BPL plate inside front cover. / rank
 
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Call number: MS f Med.101.
Property / note: Call number: MS f Med.101. / rank
 
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Former call number: MS 1528.
Property / note: Former call number: MS 1528. / rank
 
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Bibliography: Charity C. Willard, "The 'Three Virtues' of Christine de Pisan," Boston Public Library quarterly (1950): 291-305; Charity C. Willard and Eric Hicks. "Le livre des trois vertus: Christine de Pizan" (Paris, 1989), edition based on this manuscript; N. Margolis, (review of Willard and Hicks), Speculum 67 (1992): 761-764; See also G. Ouy and C. Reno, "Identification des autographes de...
Property / note: Bibliography: Charity C. Willard, "The 'Three Virtues' of Christine de Pisan," Boston Public Library quarterly (1950): 291-305; Charity C. Willard and Eric Hicks. "Le livre des trois vertus: Christine de Pizan" (Paris, 1989), edition based on this manuscript; N. Margolis, (review of Willard and Hicks), Speculum 67 (1992): 761-764; See also G. Ouy and C. Reno, "Identification des autographes de... / rank
 
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4 December 2023
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Property / date last updated: 4 December 2023 / rank
 
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Property / IIIF manifest: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qb98q5887/manifest / rank
 
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Latest revision as of 20:07, 18 March 2024

Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444648, MS f Med.101)
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Le livre des trois vertus. (DS3315)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444648, MS f Med.101)

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    28 November 2023
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    Le livre des trois vertus.
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    Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
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    Manuscripts, French--France
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--France
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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    Extent: 98 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 287 x 195 (182 x 103) mm
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    Ms. codex.
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    In French.
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    Title from incipits on fol. 1 and 3.
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    Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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    Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (2 modern paper leaves + 1 parchment leaf) + 98 + iii (2 modern paper leaves + 1 parchment leaf) ; 1-118 1210 ; quires signed in modern arabic pencil, lower left corner of the first recto of each quire. Catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
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    Layout: Two columns, 31 lines; bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
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    Secundo folio: ... baille et tenu a ...
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    Script: Bâtarde in brown ink with red rubrics.
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    Decoration: Two-line gold initials throughout filled with salmon and white tracery outlined with blue, or vice versa; six-line initials at section incipits, on fol. 1, 52, and 74 in blue with white tracery on gold, with vines and leafy infill in colors, full border of spindly vines and trefoil leaves in gold and colors, mauve and blue bars circumscribing the text, with white tracery. Half-page...
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    Binding: Ca. 19th-century red morocco binding with gilt-fillet border and board edges, gilt filigree turn-ins, purple watered silk endpapers and conjugate flyleaves, two glossy paper flyleaves at front and back, spint gilt in compartments, "LE LIVRE/ DES/ VERTUS" and "MANUSCRIT/ SUR/ VELLIN," all edges gilt.
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    Origin: The primary script of this manuscript has been attributed by Nadia Margolis to the "R" hand, "one of the three major [scribes] in Christine's atelier as identified by Gilbert Ouy and Christine Reno," with "interventions by the 'X' hand" (thought by some to be Christine's own) on several leaves. The "X" hand, if not Christine's, is certainly the copyist of Harley MS 4431 and Paris, BN...
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    Provenance: 15th-century ownership inscription on fol. 98v: "Ce livre contient xxiiii vingt [i.e. 80 + 20] feulies et une ystoyre. Et appertient a monseigneur de sainct vallier qui le trouvera le luy rende et parera la payne dy celluy qui le trouvera." ("This book contains 100 leaves and one story. And it belongs to Monseigneur de Saint-Vallier. May whoever finds it return it to him, and he...
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    Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Erwin Rosenthal in 1943 (SDBM 57051). BPL plate inside front cover.
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    Call number: MS f Med.101.
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    Former call number: MS 1528.
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    Bibliography: Charity C. Willard, "The 'Three Virtues' of Christine de Pisan," Boston Public Library quarterly (1950): 291-305; Charity C. Willard and Eric Hicks. "Le livre des trois vertus: Christine de Pizan" (Paris, 1989), edition based on this manuscript; N. Margolis, (review of Willard and Hicks), Speculum 67 (1992): 761-764; See also G. Ouy and C. Reno, "Identification des autographes de...
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    4 December 2023
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