University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 909
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1714
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 909
- Title:
- Le livre des Eneydes.
- Virgil
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- [between 1450 and 1510]
- Language:
- fre
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 161 leaves : parchment ; 370 x 290 (274 x 227) mm bound to 389 x 297 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de, 1708-1780
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Gougy, Lucien
Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946
- Note:
- Origin: Written in France between 1450 and 1510.
Binding: 17th-century red morocco, rebacked.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 161 + ii (modern paper); [1-161]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in red ink.
Script: Written in bâtarde script by a single hand.
Decoration: Yellow capital strokes; large space left for illuminations at the beginning of each chapter.
Ms. codex.
Purchased, 1951.
Sold by the fifth earl of Ashburnham as part of the Barrois collection at auction at Sotheby's, June 10, 1901, lot 607.
Held in the collections of Joseph Barrois and then Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham.
Sold by Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, at auction at De Bure, 1783, lot 2459.
Sold in the collection of Lucien Gougy at auction by Charles Bosse of Hôtel Druot, February 10, 1936, lot 2811.
Sold in the collection of Gabriel Wells at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, November 13, 1951, lot 562. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940098043503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3rn30860/manifest
- Holding Institution:
