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This sixteen-folio manuscript is entitled the Pronosticque historial de la félicité future de l'an mil cincq cens et douze. The text was written and signed by the Walloon poet and historiographer Jean Lemaire de Belges, and is an autograph copy produced for the Queen of France, Anne of Brittany. It appears to be the sole surviving exemplar of this unpublished and unknown text, and includes a colophon with the date and motto of the author (fol. 15v) and his signature (fol. 16v). The text concerns a prediction surrounding the auspicious circumstances at the beginning of the year 1512. The first page opening includes the queen's Castilian motto "NON MUDERA" inherited from her Spanish mother, as well as the year in Roman numerals in two red banderoles, which frame a star-like emblem with a cypher containing the letters of ANNA BONA (fol. 1v). The text is accompanied by a short poem [fols. 16r-16v], also by Lemaire and unpublished, entitled Double virelay dont chacun couplet a xii lignes de nouvelle invention.
Support: Parchment; Extent: v+16+v; 188 x 126 mm bound to 195 x 134 mm; Foliation: Modern pencil foliation, upper right recto; Collation: 1-2 (8); Signatures: Faint letter "a" visible on bottom right of folios 3r and 4r
Single column of eighteen lines, ruled in brown ink; written area: 133 x 80 mm
Bâtarde
Emblem and cypher within a twelve-pointed gold star and banderolles on fol. 1v; decorated initials and line endings on blue and red backgrounds throughout; display script on fols. 1r and 15r
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Handwritten description by John Holmes (1800-1854) of the British Museum pasted onto third flyleaf
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Paris, France
Dedicated by the author to the Queen of France, Anne of Brittany; 1512
Eighteenth- or nineteenth-century tooled and stamped red leather
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Presumably gifted to Anne of Brittany, Queen of France; Walter Henry Bracebridge, Esq.; given by him to Evelyn Philip Shirley in 1865 along with twenty volumes of printed books (as per note on inside cover); Ettington Manuscript Library; A.S.W. Rosenbach
Paris, France
Dedicated by the author to the Queen of France, Anne of Brittany; 1512
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Presumably gifted to Anne of Brittany, Queen of France; Walter Henry Bracebridge, Esq.; given by him to Evelyn Philip Shirley in 1865 along with twenty volumes of printed books
This sixteen-folio manuscript is entitled the Pronosticque historial de la félicité future de l'an mil cincq cens et douze. The text was written and signed by the Walloon poet and historiographer Jean Lemaire de Belges, and is an autograph copy produced for the Queen of France, Anne of Brittany. It appears to be the sole surviving exemplar of this unpublished and unknown text, and includes a colophon with the date and motto of the author (fol. 15v) and his signature (fol. 16v). The text concerns a prediction surrounding the auspicious circumstances at the beginning of the year 1512. The first page opening includes the queen's Castilian motto "NON MUDERA" inherited from her Spanish mother, as well as the year in Roman numerals in two red banderoles, which frame a star-like emblem with a cypher containing the letters of ANNA BONA (fol. 1v). The text is accompanied by a short poem [fols. 16r-16v], also by Lemaire and unpublished, entitled Double virelay dont chacun couplet a xii lignes de nouvelle invention.
Handwritten description by John Holmes (1800-1854) of the British Museum pasted onto third flyleaf
Bâtarde
Emblem and cypher within a twelve-pointed gold star and banderolles on fol. 1v; decorated initials and line endings on blue and red backgrounds throughout; display script on fols. 1r and 15r
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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