University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 735

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1637

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 735

Title:

Libro fortune.

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[1450?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 98 leaves : paper ; 174 x 125 (128-136 x 67-80) mm bound to 178 x 127 mm

Note:

Page 1-192: "[prologue beginning is damaged; text] En l'an de l'incarnacion Que Jhesus suffrit passion ... Et dont me vint si grant merveille Atant fut jour et je m'esveille. [rubr.] Deo gracias explicit libro fortune."
Origin: Written in central France in the middle of the 15th century (Grigsby).
Title from explicit (p. 192).
Ms. codex.
Watermark: Letter N topped with a cross resembles the mark of paper made in Dijon as early as 1390 (Briquet, vol. 3, watermark no. (N)8427, similar to watermarks on paper manufactured at Pisa, Rodez, Toulouse, and Turin).
Pagination: Paper, xii (modern paper) + 98 + xii (modern paper); 1-2¹⁶, 3¹⁸, 4-6¹⁶; 1-51, 50-83, 82-192; near contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Catchwords on last verso of each gathering.
Layout: Written in 21-27 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a cursive bastarda hand (Grigsby).
Decoration: 2-line initials in red ink, decorations in red and yellow ink on initials and flourishes.
Binding: 18th-century calf stamped with coat of arms and decorated with gold.
Coat of arms of the Vicomte de Villiers du Terrage on binding (Grigsby).
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, French

allegories (literary works)

Fortune

Christian poetry, French

Fifteenth century

Fortuna (Roman deity)

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935670733503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3r49g99s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania