(Q16859)
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Dits des philosophes. Le mireon aux pecheurs. Le livre Griseledis. Le mireon des pecheurs.
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1400 and 1425
15. century
1400Gregorian
1425Gregorian
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Extent: 102 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 307 x 238 (203 x 166) mm bound to 32 cm, in box 34 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In French.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and by Walter Cahn's entry in the 2016 Beyond Words exhibition catalog.
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Secundo folio: ... estre brehaine que aporter ...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (parchment) + 102 + i (first and final blanks are formerly pasted down free flyleaves) ; 1-58 610 7-88 92 10-138 142 ; some signatures preserved as tallies in red ink in the lower right corner recto of the first half of each gathering. Catchwords for quires 1-9 only (Dits des philosophes), lower right corner of final verso of each gathering, in partial red border...
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Layout: Two columns, 33 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in blind or light plummet.
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Script: Written in bâtarde in brown ink with red rubrics by two hands (fol. 1-68 and fol. 69-101).
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Decoration (primary): 23 eight-line grisaille miniatures, some with colored wash backgrounds, at least some by the same artist as Paris, BnF fr. 811. 12-line grisaille miniature on fol. 1 with crimson and gold diapered background and full border of gold leaves and spindly vines (for further explanation of the identities of the depicted persons, see notes in Schofield and in Sutton...
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Decoration (secondary): Two- to five-line initials throughout in gold and colors, paragraph markers alternating blue and red.
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Binding: 15th-century leather (goat or sheep) over pasteboards, spine in compartments, free flylfeaves formerly pasted down to incunable pastedowns inside each cover that are uncut sheets in gothic typeface, from a quarto incunable.
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Origin: Written in France in the first quarter of the 15th century.
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Provenance: 17th-century inscription on fol. ii verso, "2/ et Monsieur le Marquis." A hand dated "25 June 1835" has transcribed most of Griseldis alongside the text, in the outer and lower margins of fol. 87v-93v.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL in 1941 from A. Rosenthal (Schoenberg Database nr. 57040). BPL bookplate inside front cover.
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Call number: MS f Med.91.
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Former call number: MS 1518.
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Bibliography:Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016) no. 191; M. Munsterberg, "The sayings of philosophers," More Books/BPL Quarterly XVI (1941): 315-321.
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28 November 2023
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28 November 2023
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