University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 658

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DS ID:

DS1572

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 658

Title:

La destruction de Troye ... etc..

Author:

Milet, Jacques, approximately 1425-1466

Jacques Millet WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[after 1450]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 487 leaves : paper ; 297 x 207 (215 x 140) mm bound to 310 x 213 mm

Former Owner(s):

Churchill, Robert

Robert Churchill WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Spine title: Bernard of Clairvaux.
Title for first work from heading (f. 1r).
Incipit: Cy comance Les lamentacions Saint Bernard.
Title and attribution for second work from rubric following prologue: Cy aupres se sensuit la destruction de Troye translatee de latin en francoys mise par personnaiges par Maistre Jacques Millet estudiant en loys à Orleans l'an mil cccc et l" (f. 13v).
Title for third work from f. 449v; incipit: [A] la louenge Dieu de la Vierge souveraine de tous sains et de toutes sainctes et a la request de tres excellante et redoubte dame et puissant princesse dame Ysabel de Baviere reyne de France j'ai translate ceste Passion ... l'an de grace mil troys cens quatre vingtz et dishuit ... (f. 450r).
Date of composition of third work is 1398. La destruction de Troye, the second work, was composed 1450-1453, with the date of 1450 given at the end of the prologue (f. 13v).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 487 + i (modern paper); [1-487]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Origin: Written in France after 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Red used for some initials, with occasional decorations of faces and flourishes; capitals touched with yellow.
Binding: Modern half leather over original boards, both covers detached.
Layout: Written in 34 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 816 (1954), no. 151.
Formerly owned by Robert Churchill (inscription, flyleaf i recto).

Keyword:

Legends

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Drama

Manuscripts, French

codices (bound manuscripts)

Mystery plays

plays (literary genre)

To 1500

French poetry

Jesus Christ

Passion of Jesus Christ

Religious drama, French

Turkey--Troy (Extinct city)

Mysteries and miracle-plays, French

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874443503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3sb3x979/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania