French translation by Octavien de Saint-Gelais of Virgil's Aeneid, in decasyllabic couplets.
Support: parchment; Extent: 161 leaves : 370 x 290 (274 x 227) mm bound to 389 x 297 mm; Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 161 + ii (modern paper); [1-161]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in red ink.
Written in bâtarde script by a single hand.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
France
Written in France between 1450 and 1510.
17th-century red morocco, rebacked.
Sold in the collection of Gabriel Wells at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, November 13, 1951, lot 562.
Sold by the fifth earl of Ashburnham as part of the Barrois collection at auction at Sotheby's, June 10, 1901, lot 607.
Purchased, 1951.
Sold by Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, at auction at De Bure, 1783, lot 2459.
Held in the collections of Joseph Barrois and then Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham.
Sold in the collection of Lucien Gougy at auction by Charles Bosse of Hôtel Druot, February 10, 1936, lot 2811.
France
Written in France between 1450 and 1510.
Sold in the collection of Gabriel Wells at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, November 13, 1951, lot 562.
Sold by the fifth earl of Ashburnham as part of the Barrois collection at auction at Sotheby's, June 10, 1901, lot 607.
Purchased, 1951.
Sold by Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, at auction at De Bure, 1783, lot 2459.
Held in the collections of Joseph Barrois and then Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham.
Sold in the collection of Lucien Gougy at auction by Charles Bosse of Hôtel Druot, February 10, 1936, lot 2811.
French translation by Octavien de Saint-Gelais of Virgil's Aeneid, in decasyllabic couplets.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Written in bâtarde script by a single hand.
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