Bryn Mawr College, MS 52

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16552

Shelfmark:

MS 52

Title:

Traite de la vanite des choses mondaines

Traite de la vanite des choses mondaines

Author:

Barthelemy, Jean

Jean Barthélémy WIKIDATA

Place:

Paris?, France

Paris TGN

France TGN

Language:

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Occitan (post 1500)

Middle French WIKIDATA

Occitan WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 67; 292 x 205 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Vaurelha, Frances

Frances Vaurelha WIKIDATA

De La Tour, M.

M. De La Tour WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Disbound, with the removal of the boards and spine; still sewn on the original (?) five thongs
Layout: Single column, twenty-one to twenty-seven lines, full-length bounding lines on all sides in drypoint, no visible ruling or pricking; written area: 185 x 100 mm
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Decoration: One three-line illuminated initial on fol. 1r and various two-line red initials beginning sections throughout; illuminated panel border in outer margin on fol. 1r; black rubrics; frequent manicules throughout
Provenance: Copied in France in 1471, as indicated by the colophon on fol. 67r: "parfait et acomply l'an deuant dit le iiiime jour de janiuer mil iiiicccc lxxi AMEN", (Finished and completed in the year previously mentioned, the fourth day of January, 1471. Amen). The watermark of the paper (Briquet 1685: Paris 1471), as well as the style of the border on fol. 1 (compare, for example, the very...

Keyword:

Paper

France

illuminations (paintings)

damage (condition)

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

Theology

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS52.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS52/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College