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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25470

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.92

Title:

L'arbre des batailles ... [etc.

Arbre des batailles

Author:

Bonet, Honoré, active 1378-1398

Honorat Bovet WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Moris, V.C

Place:

Calais [and England

Calais TGN

England TGN

Date:

between1450? and 1471

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 206 leaves : paper, ill. ; 285 x 210 (167-197 x 100-132) mm bound to 30 cm in box 32 cm

Former Owner(s):

Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492

William Caxton WIKIDATA

Sonnyng, William Sonnyng, John Wall, Thomas, 1504-1536

Thomas Wall WIKIDATA

Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641

Henry Spelman WIKIDATA

Macro, Cox, -1767

Cox Macro WIKIDATA

Patteson, John, 1755-1833

John Patteson WIKIDATA

Gurney, Hudson, 1775-1864

Hudson Gurney WIKIDATA

Gurney, J. H. 1848-1922

John Henry Gurney Jr. WIKIDATA

Gurney, Q. E. 1883-

Quinton Edward Gurney WIKIDATA

Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. composite codex.
In Latin, French, and Middle English.
Title derived from contents of part I. Date range based on contents and on ownership inscription on fol. 1.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Collation: Paper (some sheets similar to Briquet 386 and others to Piccard 86054-64), fol. iii + 166 + iii + 23 + iii + i8 ; iii 1-620 722+1 (fol. 143=singleton) 820 iii 916 1010-2 (innermost bifolium, between 186 and 187, wanting) i8 (ca. 17th-century additions) ; signed i-vii in lower left corner of first recto; first half of each quire signed ia, ib, ic.../...viia, viib, viic. Quire 8...
Layout: Part I (fol.1-143): 285 x 210 (197 x 100) mm, single column, approximately 35 lines.
Layout: Part II (fol. 144-163): 285 x 210 (208 x 231) mm, single column, 37 lines.
Layout: Part II (fol. 167-190): 285 x 210 (207 x 122) mm, single column, approximately 35 lines.
Layout: Part III (ca. 17th-century additions): one or two columns, approximately 75 lines.
Script: Parts I and II are written in a Gothic cursive in brown ink with brown rubrics by three scribes: V.C. Moris, fol. 1-143; (unidentified hand I), fol. 144-163; (unidentified hand II) fol. 164-190. Part III: written in a ca. 17th-century cursive hand in brown ink.
Decoration: Spaces left for two- to four-line initials unfilled (guide letters only). The tree of battle illustration in brown ink on f. 5v.
Binding: Bound ca. 1471 in blind stamped calf over wooden boards. Spine with raised bands, ruled in blind. Three paper labels are present. The primary label contains a manuscript list of contents in a ca. 19th-century hand ("Arbre de batailles / The libel of English / policy / &c. / MS"). Conservation treatment in 2018 revealed that the underside of the parchment hinge at front contains two...
Origin: The contents of parts I (fol. 1-163v) and II (fol. 164-190v) were written in the mid-15th century. Part I was written in Calais by the scribe V.C. Moris (see colophon, fol. 143). Part II was written in England, but on both French and Italian paper stocks. Part III consists of 8 tipped-in leaves of mid-17th-century manuscript materials in various hands, all likely produced in England...
Provenance 1: This volume contains three autographs of one "Willelmo Caston," conjectured by some to be William Caxton, the first English printer. These inscriptions are present on fol. 1 ("Iste liber co[n]stat Will[el]mo Caston"), fol. 143, and on the rear pastedown. N.F. Blake suggests that this autograph is more likely attributable to a different man: William Caston, a member of the English...
Provenance 2: In 1471 "Willelmo Caston" gave the volume to William Sonnyng, who appended this information to the inscription on fol. 1 ("...quy dedit Will[el]mo Son[n]yng An⁰ m[^i]iiij[^c]lxxj"). William Sonnyng's name also appears on the front and rear pastedowns. The book was then passed to Sonnyng's son and grandson (both named John). The autograph of the elder John Sonnyng, dated "anno...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from Maggs, of London, in 1939.
Call number: MS f Med.92.
Former call number: MS 1519.
Bibliography: Honor McCusker, "A Book from Caxton's Library." More Books 15 (1940): 275-285; Sotheby & Co. Catalogue of a Selected Portion of the Valuable Library and Collection of Manuscripts, the Property of Major Q.E. Gurney, D.L. (London: The Firm, 1936), lot 146, 35-40; N.F. Blake, Caxton and His World (London: Andre Deutsch, 1969), 36-38, 222-223; W.J.B. Crotch, The Prologues and...

Keyword:

Wooden boards

Manuscripts, English (Middle)

England

Autographs

Blind tooled bindings

Digital images

Poetry

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Inscriptions

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, French

France

Calf bindings

Military art and science

Early works

Massachusetts--Boston

Chivalry

War (International law)

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444693

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library