(Q43572)
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Les XXI epistres des dames illustes traduicttes d'Ovide; par le Reverend Pere en Dieu Monseigneur l'Evesque de Angoulesme
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Heroides
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Testard, Robinet, active 1475-1531
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Le Clerc, Jean, 1657-1736
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Lawrence, Edwin Henry
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Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
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Miniatures (Painting)--France--15th century
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Illuminations (paintings)--France--16th century
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Illuminations (paintings)--France--15th century
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Miniatures (Painting)--France--16th century
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Epistolary poetry, Latin--Early works to 1800
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Love poetry, Latin--Early works to 1800
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between 1490 and 1510
15. century
16. century
1490Gregorian
1510Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 131 : parchment ; 167 x 243 mm
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Title from frontispiece
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Bâtarde.
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Layout: 12 2-48 56(text complete) 6-178 184(-4). Catchwords written lightly in a small noting script in the inner margin of the second leaf verso of each quire (in quire 5, on first leaf). 36 lines of verse, ruled in pale red ink.
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Span folios: ff. 1-131v.
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Decoration: Twenty-one miniatures, 24-line, within a patterned color and gold frame border, attributed to Robinet Testard but with faces and hands heavily repainted in the eighteenth century; the miniatures usually depict the writers, 3/4 length, dressed in handsome brocade robes, as they compose their letters, standing against simple architectural backgrounds. The frontispiece, f. 1, contains...
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Other Decoration: On f. 2, 2 KL monograms on blue and red grounds cut from a book of hours have been pasted in (the top one upside down) to serve as the initials "L."
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Acknowledgments: We thank Mme Nicole Reynaud for the attribution of the artist.
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Assigned Date: s. XV/XVI.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/5/2012.
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Belonged to Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736); his sale, Amsterdam, 6 September 1735 with the catalogue entry reprinted by F. L. Hoffmann, "Handschriften welche in Katalogen öffentlich verkaufter Bibliotheken verzeichnet sind," Serapeum 19 (1858) 194-98, especially p. 197. Guglielmo Libri (1803-1869) sale, Sotheby's, 25 July 1862, lot 429 to Edwin Henry Lawrence; his sale, Sotheby's, 9 May 1892, lot...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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