University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 947

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DS ID:

DS1739

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 947

Title:

La declaracion de tous les haulx fais et glorieuses aventures du duc Phelippe du Bourgoingne.

Author:

Chastellain, Georges, 1405?-1475

Georges Chastellain WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[1470?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French, with verses in Old French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 22 leaves : paper ; 288 x 209 (169 x 119) mm bound to 288 x 224 mm

Note:

f. 3r-19v: "[rubr.] Sensuit en brief la declaracion de tous las haulx fais et glorieuses aventures du duc Phelippe de Burgoingne, cellui qui se nomme le duc et le grant lyon ... [f. 3r: text] Pour avoir la declaracion des haulx et puissans fais du tres hault et puissant duc Phelippe de Bourgoingne ... [f. 19v] ... et Dieu s'il lui plaist par egale benediction sera leur conduiseur en sempiterne...
Minor water stains on upper corner; f. 1, 2, and 22 stained from contact with the leather cover.
Title from rubric of main work (f. 3r); author and date from Zacour-Hirsch.
Poem incipit: "Bien est il vray que pour eulx arengier/En mon service ils passent maint dangier ..." (f. 1r).
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, 22; [1-22]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a hybrid Gothic script.
Decoration: Coat of arms of the Rombouts family, with three scallop shells and the motto Broessger Dat Gelas ("More Fragile Than Glass," f. 2v); red rubrics and capitals at the beginnings of sections.
Binding: Limp leather, possibly contemporary (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in France, ca. 1470 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Purchased in 1960.
Note on last folio, "Dis boeck hoost for Janne Rombouts," with the name Janne written above the earlier, blacked-out name of Claes (f. 22r).
Accompanied by a letter (now filed under Misc. Mss.) dated 1759 from Philip Morant to [Thomas Birch?] Bridges, then owner of the manuscript.

Keyword:

histories (literary genre)

Manuscripts, French

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

France--Burgundy

House of Burgundy, 1384-1477

Netherlands

Charles, Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477

Philip, Duke of Burgundy, 1396-1467

History

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935826983503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3bv60/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania