University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 1471

Metadata

DS ID:

DS16922

Shelfmark:

Codex Ms. 1471

Title:

Dedicatory prayer

Prayer

Place:

Amiens, France

Amiens TGN

France TGN

Date:

1545?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 166 x 130 mm. bound to 225 x 170 mm.

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Script: Written in lettre bâtarde.
Layout: Written in 19 lines.
Decoration: A single one-line initial of gold on red ground; decorative line fillers alternating in red and blue; bas-de-page miniature depicting eight bodies wrapped in winding sheets, some facial features distinguishable, arranged around a crucifix, picked out in gold, on a pedestal, against a blue sky.
Binding: mounted on disbound lower board of volume bound in 18th-century calf.
Origin: Written in Amiens, probably around 1545. "Au dessoubz gist selon degre mortel demisielle Marie Pinguerel...L'an mil cinq cens quarante-cinq morut."
Shelfmark: Chicago, University of Chicago, Ms 1471.
Inscription and date on board's pastedown: "L'epitaphe suivante (ca.1545) aussi singuliere que curieuse a été communiquée par M. le Chansing Clabault, et insérée aux Archives de Picardie. Tome 2e. 7e livraison p. 44 -- 1842."

Keyword:

Poetry

Early works

Manuscripts, French

Death

Institutional Record:

http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12725195

Holding Institution:

University of Chicago