(Q52983)

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Les deux amans de Lombardie
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Velvet bindings (Binding)
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Manuscrits français--Californie--Berkeley
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Manuscripts, Renaissance--California--Berkeley
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Manuscripts, French--California--Berkeley
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Lombardy (Italy)--Poetry
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Manuscrits de la Renaissance--Californie--Berkeley
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between 1500 and 1525
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Extent: 40 leaves : parchment ; 191 x 134 (126 x 98) mm. bound to 196 x 137 mm.
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Bought of Thorpe by Sir Thomas Phillipps (his no. 2539); passed into the Bancroft Library. Front pastedown, in pencil, "Sale no. 27[-?] in son[-]e Catalogue." In another hand, in pencil, "A/I/5," in a third hand, "u/gy/o," and in a fourth hand, "3/13/6." Below, Phillipps' Middle Hill stamp with "2539" handwritten in pencil. Bookplate of the Bancroft Library on rear pastedown; on lower right...
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Ms. codex.
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Spine title.
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Collation: Parchment, fol. 40; 1-58.
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Layout: 17 lines per page, frame-ruled in red ink with lines running the length and breadth of page; ruled in lead for lines of text. Traces of earlier numbering on bottom right corner of recto of folios but cut off when rebound. Catchwords.
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Script: French gothic book script.
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Binding: Red velvet and leather spine over pasteboards; 5 raised thongs; traces of side ties. Title on spine in gilt ("Les deux amans de Lombardie"), Phillipps no. 2539 on spine. Front and back pastedowns ruled with red frame-ruling like the rest of the manuscript.
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Decoration: 1 3-line initial in light blue with white highlighting on gold ground, slightly rubbed.
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Origin: Produced "en Normandie" (fol. 1v, line 9) in the early 16th century.
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Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 149.
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Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS PQ1561.D4.
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Fol. 1r-39v: "Genolx flexis en grande reverence / Tres humblement a ta magnificence/ Temerement bien oze presenter / Ce petit livre en voullant contenter ... Pourquoy concludz que qui fidellement / Vivra pour vray, fera ben fynnement / Ainsi quom peult juger par ceste histore [sic] / La bonne fin rend la parfaicte glore." fol. 40r-v ruled but blank.
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20 September 2024
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20 September 2024
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