The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 936

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9905

Shelfmark:

mssHM 936

Title:

De casibus vivorum illustrium in French

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 230 : parchment ; 265 x 360 mm

Former Owner(s):

Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, 1790-1876

Ambroise Firmin Didot WIKIDATA

Dorman, Rushton M

Rushton Mather Dorman WIKIDATA

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Bâtarde.
Layout: Originally quires of eight, only ten surviving intact: 2-3 (ff. 3-18), 18 (ff. 103-110), 22-24 (ff. 124-147), 29-31 (ff. 174-197) and 34 (ff. 211-218). Missing 58 leaves, 1 quire after f. 116, and several quires at the end with consequent disruption to the text. Catchwords horizontally in the inner margin beyond the bounding line. Traces of signatures on ff. 127, 150, 157 suggest a...
Decoration: Ninety-three illuminations (ca. 93 x 75 mm.) by more than one artist (compare, for example, ff. 85 and 155), in a rather coarse style with preference for heavy, dull colors, contrasted with a sharp yellow.
Other Decoration: Delicate partial borders in gold frames of acanthus leaves, flowers, strawberries and pomegranates to the left of each illumination; 3-line initials, blue or rarely pink, on gold cusped ground; 1-line initials in chapter lists, and paragraph marks, gold on alternating blue or pink ground; initials in the text washed with yellow; ribbon line fillers parted pink and blue...
Assigned Date: s. XV3/4.
Incipit: //D[rubricator's error for "L"]e deluge des eaues que dieu fist sur terre ou temps de noe pour la vengence des pechiez des hommes. Explicit: //Apres doncques que Alboinus roy des lombars//.
Laurent de Premierfait's second translation of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium; modern edition of Book 1 only, Laurent de Premierfait's Des cas des nobles Hommes et Femmes, Book I, translated from Boccaccio, a critical Edition based on Six Manuscripts, by P. M. Gathercole (Chapel Hill 1968). See also C. Bozzolo, Manuscrits des traductions françaises d'oeuvres de Boccace, XVe siècle...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
Monogram "S.S." linked by a cord in the border, f. 1. Said to have belonged to a Duke of Orleans (see below, Cat. 1909) but there is no evidence in the manuscript to support this. Belonged to Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876); at that time the manuscript had 234 leaves and began: //merusement regarder ces deux viellars qui e peine povoient parler qui avoient este faiz sans ouvrage de nature...

Keyword:

Translations

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

decorated initials

Kings and rulers

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862137

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52033/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens