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This manuscript represents the sole known illuminated copy of a text by Jean Bouchet entitled Les Regnars traversant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde. Employing the fox as a metaphor for the vices of contemporary man, Bouchet's text and the nine accompanying miniatures denounce all estates of society: the king, the nobility, the clergy, the merchant class, and the common people. The author was a law clerk and rhetorician from Poitiers, France, but this manuscript copy of his text was produced for Philip the Handsome, archduke of Austria, while he was duke of Burgundy and count of Charolais. A slightly different version of this text was published, with woodcuts, by the Parisian publisher Antoine Vérard in late 1503 or early 1504.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+44+ii; 371 x 250 mm bound to 383 x 262 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1-2 (8), 3 (6), 4 (8, -5), 5 (8), 6 (8, -8); Signatures: Modern pencil signatures A1-F1 in lower right corners at folios: 9r, 17, 23r, 30r, 38r; Catchwords: Partially cropped vertical catchwords visible in lower right corners at folios: 8v, 16v, 22v, 37v
Two columns of thirty-six lines; ruled in purple ink; written area: 248 x 180 mm
Bâtarde
One half-page miniature with full border and coat-of-arms, three half-page miniatures, and five column-width miniatures; nine decorated initials
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.
Fol. 40v contains an acrostic of the author's name
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.
Ghent?, Low Countries
Circa 1505-1510
Vellum with label on spine, eighteenth century
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Ghent?, Low Countries
Circa 1505-1510
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
This manuscript represents the sole known illuminated copy of a text by Jean Bouchet entitled Les Regnars traversant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde. Employing the fox as a metaphor for the vices of contemporary man, Bouchet's text and the nine accompanying miniatures denounce all estates of society: the king, the nobility, the clergy, the merchant class, and the common people. The author was a law clerk and rhetorician from Poitiers, France, but this manuscript copy of his text was produced for Philip the Handsome, archduke of Austria, while he was duke of Burgundy and count of Charolais. A slightly different version of this text was published, with woodcuts, by the Parisian publisher Antoine Vérard in late 1503 or early 1504.
Fol. 40v contains an acrostic of the author's name
Bâtarde
One half-page miniature with full border and coat-of-arms, three half-page miniatures, and five column-width miniatures; nine decorated initials
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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