Harvard University, MS Typ 131

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DS ID:

DS11186

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 131

Title:

Works on knighthood and tournaments

Date:

ca. 1470

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 61 leaves, bound : vellum ; 22 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Bolongaro-Crevenna, P. A

Pietro Antonio Crevenna WIKIDATA

La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de, 1708-1780

Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc WIKIDATA

Guyon de Sardière

Jean-Baptiste Denis Guyon de Sardière WIKIDATA

Gaignet, Louis

Louis Jean Gaignat WIKIDATA

Johnes, Thomas, 1748-1816

Thomas Johnes WIKIDATA

Newcastle, Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of, 1864-1928

Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle WIKIDATA

Note:

The French text is written in littera bastarda in brown ink in 1 column. There are 1 large miniature in tempera and gold (p. 1), 2 foliate borders, 12 large watercolor drawings, drawings of coats of arms, and many illuminated initials. The rear flyleaf bears a fragment of book 10 of the Code of Justinian (Corpus juris civilis).
Bound in red morocco inlaid with dark green and elaborately tooled in gilt, probably by Padeloup le Jeune, ca. 1720.
In a tray case, 24 cm.
Diane de Poitiers (?); Guyon de Sardière (signature on pp. 1, 122); Louis Jean Gaignet (sale, Paris, 10 Apr. 1769); Duc de la Vallière (sale, Paris, 12 Jan. 1784, lot 3988); P. A. Bolongaro-Crevenna (sale, Amsterdam, 26 Apr. 1790, lot 6552); Thomas Johnes; Clumber library (sale London, 14 Feb. 1938, lot 1094).
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; gift, 1982.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Codex (Corpus juris civilis)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095617650203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:15190736

Holding Institution:

Harvard University