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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11206

Shelfmark:

MS Fr 370

Title:

Roman de Mandevie; les mélancolies sur les conditions de ce monde

Roman de Mandevie

Author:

Dupin, Jean, 1302-1372

Jean Dupin WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Engremer, Jehan, active approximately 1450

Jehan Engremer WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1450.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 231 leaves, bound : paper ; 20 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Includes fragments of two vellum deeds used as pastedowns, one dated 1426, the other also 15th century, both relating to Valence.
19 x 13 cm.; gatherings mostly of 12 leaves (the first two of 8); written in brown ink by a single scribe in cursive lettre bâtarde; initials, paragraph marks, and incipits usually in red; a few penwork drawings of humans, animals, and monstrous heads attached to initials or in margins.
Watermark: a helmet (Briquet 2901), whose use is recorded at Lorris (Loire) in 1450.
In early 19th-century French purple boards, gilt title on upper spine and '2849' pasted on lower spine. In a half morocco tray case, 21 cm.
Formerly Thomas Phillipps (sale, Sotheby's, 30 Nov. 1965, lot 26).
Gift of Edwin Binney, 3rd, 1983.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

France

poems

deeds

romances (medieval narratives)

Dupin, Jean, 1302-1372

French literature

Fourteenth century

Allegories

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990091006030203941/catalog

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Holding Institution:

Harvard University