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Manuscript leaf from De casibus virorum illustrium

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p31p4q
Title: Manuscript leaf from De casibus virorum illustrium
Name: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375, Laurent, de Premierfait, -1418 (translator)
Date: 1425
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Fragments (object portions), Illuminations, Translations (documents), Manuscripts, French, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Partial leaf from a mid-15th century copy of Laurent de Premerfait's second translation of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium, from the chapter on Theseus (10.1-17), beginning with the rubric Le Xe chappitre contient le cas de Theseus, roy dathenes, Et commence ou latin Athene. Written in lettre bâtarde by a single hand in France, possibly Paris, in 2 columns, bottom of the leaf missing, 48 lines extant out of approximately 60, frame-ruled in lead. Decorated on the recto with an unfinished (outlines and touches of color) 26-line miniature depicting the suicide of Phaedra in the larger upper section and Theseus in exile in Cyprus in the smaller lower section; a border of flowers, acanthus leaves, and gold ivy leaves above the left column and an unfinished (gold leaves only) border on the left side of the left column; and a 5-line initial in pink on gold ground.
Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 330 x 296 mm
Language: French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
Note: Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., In Middle French.
Relation: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p31p4q, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs255.html
Subject: Phaedra (Greek mythological character) In literature, Theseus, King of Athens In literature
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 255
Provenance: Sold at auction at Christie's, 3 June 1998, lot 11, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9959171953503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p31p4q/manifest

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