Booke of good condicions (DS9974) (Q43926)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18622069, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862206, mssHM 39872)
  • Livre de bonnes moeurs
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Booke of good condicions (DS9974)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18622069, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862206, mssHM 39872)
  • Livre de bonnes moeurs

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Booke of good condicions
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Livre de bonnes moeurs
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Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
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Ethics--Early works to 1800
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between 1450 and 1475
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Extent: ff. 122 : parchment ; 156 x 224 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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An English translation of the Livre de bonnes moeurs, itself a paraphrased translation of Jacques Legrand's Sophilogium. Written in England in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
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Span folios: ff. 1-122v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-38 48(-4 and 5 after f. 27 with loss of text) 5-158 164. Catchwords in the center or right-center of the lower margin; quires and leaves signed in letters and roman numerals. 23-24 long lines, ruled in pale red ink, with the top and bottom 2 lines full across; slash pricking in the 3 outer margins. Written in a bastard secretary script.
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Decoration: Spaces of 16 and 10 lines reserved on ff. 59v and 102, presumably for miniatures; the spaces of 16, 17 and 9 lines on ff. 3, 49v and 77v may also have been intended for miniatures, although Parts 1, 2 and 4 begin on the following pages (3v, 50, 78). 5- to 3-line initials in blue and pink with white designs on gold grounds, ink spray border including acanthus and strawberries...
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
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On the front pastedown, bookplate of the Rev. Henry Campbell, chaplain to the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury; bequeathed by him in 1874 to Beaumont College, Old Windsor, Berkshire (see M. F. Bond, "Some Early Books at Beaumont College," Berkshire Archaeological Journal 54 (1954-55) 53-55). Sale of the Beaumont manuscripts, Christie's, 28 June 1973, lot 49. Acquired by the Huntington Library from...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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