University of Pennsylvania, LJS 264
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS102
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 264
- Title:
- Ymage du monde
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 1400?
- Language:
- Middle French
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 132 leaves : parchment ; 210 x 153 (144 x 80) mm bound to 220 x 160 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Court, Benoît de
Court, Antoine de, 16th century
Gaignières, Jehan de, 16th century
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric (f. 2r); title Mapemonde in caption title (f. 2r) and closing rubric (f. 130r).
Collation: Parchment, i (16th-century paper) + 132; 1-28 36 4-58 6-74 8-178 184(+2). Horizontal catchwords, lower center. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 26 long lines; frame-ruled in lead with a narrow column along the left side of the text block for the initials at the beginning of each line.
Script: Written in a French hybrid script by at least 2 hands.
Decoration: 7-line illuminated opening initial in blue and red on a gold ground with extensions (f. 2r); 18 astronomical diagrams in red and black (f. 38r, 39v, 40v, 41r, 42r, 45r, 46r, 46v, 47r, 86v, 90r, 91v, 93r, 94v, 128r); first initials of sections alternate between red with purple flourishing and blue with red flourishing; first initials of page often enlarged and decorated, sometimes...
Binding: 16th-century calf over boards, blind-stamped and -tooled, center armorial medallion of Benoît de Court (3 5-pointed stars on a shield enclosed by a wreath).
Origin: Written in France, ca. 1400.
Formerly owned by Benoît le Court (binding, note of price on upper pastedown) and his son Antoine (signature Antonius Curtius Simphorianus on front flyleaf and lower pastedown, later notes in ink, f. 132v).
Formerly owned by Jehan de Gaignières (or Jean, Johannus in manuscript), procurator of the court of the Primate of Lyon (signature, f. 130r).
Sold by Librairie Thomas-Scheler (Paris), cat. Un Choix (1998), no. 1, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9957607433503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3p26q433/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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