The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 60

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DS ID:

DS9856

Shelfmark:

mssHM 60

Title:

Les XXI epistres des dames illustes traduicttes d'Ovide; par le Reverend Pere en Dieu Monseigneur l'Evesque de Angoulesme

Author:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-18 A.D.

Ovid WIKIDATA

Artist:

Testard, Robinet, active 1475-1531

Robinet Testard WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1490 and 1510

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 131 : parchment ; 167 x 243 mm

Former Owner(s):

Le Clerc, Jean, 1657-1736

Jean Leclerc WIKIDATA

Lawrence, Edwin Henry

Edwin Henry Lawrence WIKIDATA

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from frontispiece
Support: Parchment.
Script: Bâtarde.
Layout: 12 2-48 56(text complete) 6-178 184(-4). Catchwords written lightly in a small noting script in the inner margin of the second leaf verso of each quire (in quire 5, on first leaf). 36 lines of verse, ruled in pale red ink.
Span folios: ff. 1-131v.
Decoration: Twenty-one miniatures, 24-line, within a patterned color and gold frame border, attributed to Robinet Testard but with faces and hands heavily repainted in the eighteenth century; the miniatures usually depict the writers, 3/4 length, dressed in handsome brocade robes, as they compose their letters, standing against simple architectural backgrounds. The frontispiece, f. 1, contains...
Other Decoration: On f. 2, 2 KL monograms on blue and red grounds cut from a book of hours have been pasted in (the top one upside down) to serve as the initials "L."
Acknowledgments: We thank Mme Nicole Reynaud for the attribution of the artist.
Assigned Date: s. XV/XVI.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/5/2012.
Belonged to Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736); his sale, Amsterdam, 6 September 1735 with the catalogue entry reprinted by F. L. Hoffmann, "Handschriften welche in Katalogen öffentlich verkaufter Bibliotheken verzeichnet sind," Serapeum 19 (1858) 194-98, especially p. 197. Guglielmo Libri (1803-1869) sale, Sotheby's, 25 July 1862, lot 429 to Edwin Henry Lawrence; his sale, Sotheby's, 9 May 1892, lot...

Keyword:

miniatures (paintings)

Translations

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

Poems

Epistolary poetry, Latin

Man-woman relationships

Love poetry, Latin

Mythology, Classical

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862087

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49400/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens