(Q16727)
Statements
28 November 2023
0 references
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
0 references
Yemeniz, Nicolas, 1775-1871
0 references
Rosenthal, Erwin, 1889-1981
0 references
Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
0 references
ca. 1405?
15. century
1405Gregorian
1405Gregorian
0 references
Extent: 98 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 287 x 195 (182 x 103) mm
0 references
Ms. codex.
0 references
In French.
0 references
Title from incipits on fol. 1 and 3.
0 references
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
0 references
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.
0 references
Layout: Two columns, 31 lines; bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
0 references
Secundo folio: ... baille et tenu a ...
0 references
Script: Bâtarde in brown ink with red rubrics.
0 references
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...
0 references
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.
0 references
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...
0 references
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...
0 references
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Erwin Rosenthal in 1943 (SDBM 57051). BPL plate inside front cover.
0 references
Call number: MS f Med.101.
0 references
Former call number: MS 1528.
0 references
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...
0 references
4 December 2023
0 references