The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 937
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9906
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 937
- Title:
- De casibus vivorum illustrium in French
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Scribe:
- Haquinet le Pesquier
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 1462, May 15
- Language:
- Middle French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 361 : parchment ; 330 x 420 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Croy, Jean de, 1390?-1473
Argenson, Marc Antoine René de Voyer, marquis de Paulmy d', 1722-1782
Butler, Charles, 1821-1910
Jones, Herschel V. 1861-1928
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Bâtarde.
Layout: 1-238 2410 25-338 3412 35-388 394 40-448 458(-8). Catchwords placed horizontally in inner right margins and written in a smaller version of the script of the text; one signature, f. 52, indicates a quire-leaf system formed of letters of the alphabet and roman numerals. 2 columns of 42 lines, ruled in ink, single bounding lines; pricking visible in the outer margins.
Decoration: On f. 1 a miniature (117 x 117 mm.) in a gold frame: lower left, the wheel of Fortune; center left, the creation of Eve; upper left, Adam and Eve driven from the Garden of Eden, depicted as a castle; right, Laurent de Premierfait offering his translation to Jean, Duc de Berry.
Other Decoration: Initials of books, 7- to 4-line, blue on gold and pink ground or pink on gold and blue ground with owner's arms and band borders of black ink sprays of gold trefoil leaves, colored flowers, and strawberries; chapter initials, 7- to 2-line, same colors as above, usually with owner's marks (e.g. ff. 65, 181v) and marginal sprays in the same style as above; initials in the text...
The composition of the miniature on f. 1 is similar to, and the artist the same as that in Glasgow, University Library, Hunterian T.2.18 (60), f. 1, reproduced by A. and J. L. Wilson, A Medieval Mirror: Speculum humanae salvationis 1324-1500 (Berkeley 1984) p. III-7.
Acknowledgments: We thank Prof. James Marrow for the reference to the manuscript in Glasgow, both in terms of its iconography and its artist.
Assigned Date: s. XV3/4.
Incipit: Quant Je considere et pense en diverses manieres Les plourables malheurtez de nos predicesseurs. Explicit: Et s'il advient que vous tresbuchiez en bas, faictes tant que l'en voie que ce n'est pas vostre deffaulte, Mais par la rudesse et crualte de fortune qui tourne toutes choses mondaines. Cy fine Le Livre de Jehan boccace des cas des nobles hommes et femmes. Translatte de latin en...
Laurent de Premierfait, translator. Laurent de Premierfait's second translation of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium; modern edition of the first Book 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...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
Written in 1461-1462, according to the marginal notes and the colophon, f. 359v, by Haquinet le Pesquier. His monogram appears below his name on f. 359v and in the pen flourishes on ff. 247v and 248. The first owner of the manuscript was Jean de Croy, sieur de Chimay (d. 1473), whose coat of arms is in the initials at the beginning of each book; his motto, Souveingne vous, and device, an... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862138
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52023/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
