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Collection of 3 separate works: Les lamentacions Saint Bernard [misattributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux] (f. 1r-8v); La destruction de Troye by Jacques de Milet [in verse] (f. 9r-449r); and Le mystère de la Passion de Notre Sauveur Jesus Christ, translated from Latin in 1398 for Isabel of Bavaria, queen of France (f. 449v-487r).
Support: paper; Extent: 487 leaves : 297 x 207 (215 x 140) mm. bound to 310 x 213 mm; Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 487 + i (modern paper); [1-487]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 34 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.
Red used for some initials, with occasional decorations of faces and flourishes; capitals touched with yellow.
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Ms. codex.
Title for first work from heading (f. 1r).
Incipit: Cy comance Les lamentacions Saint Bernard.
Title and attribution for second work from rubric following prologue: Cy aupres se sensuit la destruction de Troye translatee de latin en francoys mise par personnaiges par Maistre Jacques Millet estudiant en loys à Orleans l'an mil cccc et l" (f. 13v).
Title for third work from f. 449v; incipit: [A] la louenge Dieu de la Vierge souveraine de tous sains et de toutes sainctes et a la request de tres excellante et redoubte dame et puissant princesse dame Ysabel de Baviere reyne de France j'ai translate ceste Passion ... l'an de grace mil troys cens quatre vingtz et dishuit ... (f. 450r).
Date of composition of third work is 1398. La destruction de Troye, the second work, was composed 1450-1453, with the date of 1450 given at the end of the prologue (f. 13v).
Spine title: Bernard of Clairvaux.
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.
France
Written in France after 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Modern half leather over original boards, both covers detached.
Middle French
Formerly owned by Robert Churchill (inscription, flyleaf i recto).
Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 816 (1954), no. 151.
France
Written in France after 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Middle French
Formerly owned by Robert Churchill
Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 816
Collection of 3 separate works: Les lamentacions Saint Bernard [misattributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux] (f. 1r-8v); La destruction de Troye by Jacques de Milet [in verse] (f. 9r-449r); and Le mystère de la Passion de Notre Sauveur Jesus Christ, translated from Latin in 1398 for Isabel of Bavaria, queen of France (f. 449v-487r).
Ms. codex.
Title for first work from heading (f. 1r).
Incipit: Cy comance Les lamentacions Saint Bernard.
Title and attribution for second work from rubric following prologue: Cy aupres se sensuit la destruction de Troye translatee de latin en francoys mise par personnaiges par Maistre Jacques Millet estudiant en loys à Orleans l'an mil cccc et l" (f. 13v).
Title for third work from f. 449v; incipit: [A] la louenge Dieu de la Vierge souveraine de tous sains et de toutes sainctes et a la request de tres excellante et redoubte dame et puissant princesse dame Ysabel de Baviere reyne de France j'ai translate ceste Passion ... l'an de grace mil troys cens quatre vingtz et dishuit ... (f. 450r).
Date of composition of third work is 1398. La destruction de Troye, the second work, was composed 1450-1453, with the date of 1450 given at the end of the prologue (f. 13v).
Spine title: Bernard of Clairvaux.
Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.
Red used for some initials, with occasional decorations of faces and flourishes; capitals touched with yellow.
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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