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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444648, MS f Med.101)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | 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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Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
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Yemeniz, Nicolas, 1775-1871
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Rosenthal, Erwin, 1889-1981
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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ca. 1405?
15. century
1405Gregorian
1405Gregorian
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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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