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Favorable accounts of the reigns of Philip, Duke of Burgundy (f. 3r-12r), and Charles, Duke of Burgundy (f. 12r-19v) in the 15th century, written as an official history of Burgundy. Preceded by verses in Old French (f. 1r) and a prose fragment (f. 1r-2r).
Support: paper; Extent: 22 leaves : 288 x 209 (169 x 119) mm. bound to 288 x 224 mm; Foliation: Paper, 22; [1-22]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 27 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Written in a hybrid Gothic script.
Coat of arms of the Rombouts family, with three scallop shells and the motto Broessger Dat Gelas ("More Fragile Than Glass," f. 2v); red rubrics and capitals at the beginnings of sections.
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.
Ms. codex.
Title from rubric of main work (f. 3r); author and date from Zacour-Hirsch.
Poem incipit: "Bien est il vray que pour eulx arengier/En mon service ils passent maint dangier ..." (f. 1r).
f. 3r-19v: "[rubr.] Sensuit en brief la declaracion de tous las haulx fais et glorieuses aventures du duc Phelippe de Burgoingne, cellui qui se nomme le duc et le grant lyon ... [f. 3r: text] Pour avoir la declaracion des haulx et puissans fais du tres hault et puissant duc Phelippe de Bourgoingne ... [f. 19v] ... et Dieu s'il lui plaist par egale benediction sera leur conduiseur en sempiterne gloire. Amen."
Minor water stains on upper corner; f. 1, 2, and 22 stained from contact with the leather cover.
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, ca. 1470 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Limp leather, possibly contemporary (Zacour-Hirsch).
Middle French, with verses in Old French
Note on last folio, "Dis boeck hoost for Janne Rombouts," with the name Janne written above the earlier, blacked-out name of Claes (f. 22r).
Accompanied by a letter (now filed under Misc. Mss.) dated 1759 from Philip Morant to [Thomas Birch?] Bridges, then owner of the manuscript.
Purchased in 1960.
France
Written in France, ca. 1470 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Middle French, with verses in Old French
Note on last folio, "Dis boeck hoost for Janne Rombouts," with the name Janne written above the earlier, blacked-out name of Claes
Accompanied by a letter dated 1759 from Philip Morant to [Thomas Birch?] Bridges, then owner of the manuscript. (provenance)
Purchased in 1960.
Favorable accounts of the reigns of Philip, Duke of Burgundy (f. 3r-12r), and Charles, Duke of Burgundy (f. 12r-19v) in the 15th century, written as an official history of Burgundy. Preceded by verses in Old French (f. 1r) and a prose fragment (f. 1r-2r).
Ms. codex.
Title from rubric of main work (f. 3r); author and date from Zacour-Hirsch.
Poem incipit: "Bien est il vray que pour eulx arengier/En mon service ils passent maint dangier ..." (f. 1r).
f. 3r-19v: "[rubr.] Sensuit en brief la declaracion de tous las haulx fais et glorieuses aventures du duc Phelippe de Burgoingne, cellui qui se nomme le duc et le grant lyon ... [f. 3r: text] Pour avoir la declaracion des haulx et puissans fais du tres hault et puissant duc Phelippe de Bourgoingne ... [f. 19v] ... et Dieu s'il lui plaist par egale benediction sera leur conduiseur en sempiterne gloire. Amen."
Minor water stains on upper corner; f. 1, 2, and 22 stained from contact with the leather cover.
Written in a hybrid Gothic script.
Coat of arms of the Rombouts family, with three scallop shells and the motto Broessger Dat Gelas ("More Fragile Than Glass," f. 2v); red rubrics and capitals at the beginnings of sections.
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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