(Q9552)

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Le livre des Eneydes.
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Aeneis.
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Manuscripts, French--15th century
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Manuscripts, Renaissance
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To 1500
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French poetry--To 1500
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Extent: 161 leaves : parchment ; 370 x 290 (274 x 227) mm bound to 389 x 297 mm
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Origin: Written in France between 1450 and 1510.
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Binding: 17th-century red morocco, rebacked.
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Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
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Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 161 + ii (modern paper); [1-161]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
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Layout: Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in red ink.
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Script: Written in bâtarde script by a single hand.
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Decoration: Yellow capital strokes; large space left for illuminations at the beginning of each chapter.
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Ms. codex.
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Purchased, 1951.
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Sold by the fifth earl of Ashburnham as part of the Barrois collection at auction at Sotheby's, June 10, 1901, lot 607.
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Held in the collections of Joseph Barrois and then Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham.
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Sold by Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, at auction at De Bure, 1783, lot 2459.
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Sold in the collection of Lucien Gougy at auction by Charles Bosse of Hôtel Druot, February 10, 1936, lot 2811.
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Sold in the collection of Gabriel Wells at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, November 13, 1951, lot 562.
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19 September 2023
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19 September 2023
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