University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 109

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12659

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 109

Title:

Les epistres sur le Roman de la rose

Author:

Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431

Christine de Pizan WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Col, Gontier, 1354?-1418

Gontier Col WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1402 and 1410

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Old French

Old French WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (BOX 642:5) & positive (BANC MS UCB 109 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 41 leaves : parchment ; 228 x 164 (144 x 93) mm. bound to 236 x 161 mm.
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 642:5) & positive (BANC MS UCB 109 FILM)

Note:

Apparently presented by Christine de Pisan to Jean, duc de Berry, who soon gave it away. Sir. Thomas Phillipps acquired the manuscript from Payne. On front pastedown, in ink, illegible ownership signature. On front free endpaper, in ink, "les epitres de debat sus le Roman de la rose," and below, in pencil, " From Payne 1824." Fol. 1r, Middle Hill stamp, and below, in ink, "236." Fol. 40r, in...
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 41 + i; 18 26 (+1) 3-48 5[beta]0; quires signed a-e; catchwords at end of quire.
Layout: 25 lines rule in lead; frame-ruled.
Script: Bâtarde; headings in red; in the hand of Gontier Col, secretary of Jean, duc de Berry.
Binding: Tawed leather over wooden boards, early 15th century, with 4 raised bands and sewn end bands. Remains of 2 side clasps on front; manuscript title label on back cover ("Christine de Pizan [-]recloquente"). "236" pasted on spine.
Origin: Written in France in the court of Jean, duc de Berry, ca. 1402-1410.
Byname: Le débat sur le Roman de la rose.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 109.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS PQ1529.P48.E6.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

History

Contemporary bindings

Roman de la rose (Guillaume, de Lorris)

Manuscripts, French

500-1500

Manuscripts, Medieval

France

Women

Feminism and literature

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035244679706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/229005/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley