University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 956

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1743

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 956

Title:

La vray-disant, advocate des dames.

Author:

Marot, Jean, 1463-1523

Jean Marot WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[1506?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 10 leaves : parchment ; 202 x 138 (130 x 88) mm bound to 215 x 144 mm

Note:

Binding: Modern vellum.
Decoration: Paragraph symbols and line endings in red and gold or blue and gold.
Ms. codex.
Title, author, and date from Zacour-Hirsch.
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern parchment) + 10 + i (modern parchment); modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines; frame-ruled in ink; pricking present on most folios.
Script: Written in a hybrid Gothic script by a single hand.
Origin: Written in France, ca. 1506 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1962.
"Ce livre est à moy / Jane Gaillarde" (f. 10r, visible with ultraviolet light).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French

poems

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Women in literature

Women

Early works

History

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935890833503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3pd6m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania