University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 850

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1694

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 850

Title:

Collection of French poetry.

Place:

Rouen

Rouen TGN

Date:

[before 1560]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 77 leaves : paper ; 199 x 145 (138 x 95) mm bound to 207 x 154 mm

Former Owner(s):

Pichon, Jérôme, baron, 1812-1896

Jérôme Pichon WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: Written in Rouen in the first half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch); spine date 1523, last date in text 1560 (p. 100, 122).
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: 19th-century blind-stamped calf; upper and lower covers detached.
Decoration: First two poems start with a 2-line initial, one in red and one in blue; thereafter there are spaces and guide letters for initials which were never added. Calendar chart on p. 100.
Layout: Written in a single column of up to 21 lines; frame-ruled in ink with double verticals.
A more detailed description of the contents of Ms. Codex 850 supplied by the staff of bookseller Pierre Berès in 1953 is on file at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 77 + i (modern paper); modern pencil pagination, upper right recto.
Sold by Pierre Berès, 1953.
Sold in the collection of Baron Jérôme Pichon at auction at Hôtel Druot, May 1897, catalogue vol. 1, no. 893.
Formerly owned by the La Porte family, 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, French

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

poems

French poetry

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935684493503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34t6f32g/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania