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Le livre des Eneydes Oversize Ms. Codex 909
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Manuscript Overview
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Abstract

French translation by Octavien de Saint-Gelais of Virgil's Aeneid, in decasyllabic couplets.

Physical Description

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.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in red ink.

Script

Written in bâtarde script by a single hand.

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Ms. codex.

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.

Spine

Keywords
15th century
France
French
Literature -- Poetry
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

France

Date

Written in France between 1450 and 1510.

Binding

17th-century red morocco, rebacked.

Provenance

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.

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Place of Origin

France

Date

Written in France between 1450 and 1510.

Provenance

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.

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

French translation by Octavien de Saint-Gelais of Virgil's Aeneid, in decasyllabic couplets.

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Ms. codex.

Script note

Written in bâtarde script by a single hand.

References
Binding Images

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.

Spine

Keywords
15th century
France
French
Literature -- Poetry
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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