Details

Standardized Title:

Arbre des batailles

Subjects:

Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
Military art and science.
Chivalry -- Early works to 1800.
Chivalry.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Middle French.

Summary:

A treatise on war in four parts.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from f. 1r.
"Manuscrit de 1446" written on 19th-century endleaf and on small portion of former binding now attached to spine of 19th-century binding.
Foliation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 127 + ii (modern paper); [1-127]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 23-25 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Rubricated headings and initials throughout; some initials decorated with faces (f. 2r, 7v, 8r).
Binding: 19th-century calf.
Origin: Written in France[?], in the 15th century.
Notes in a later hand on final folio attribute work to Honoré Bonnor; same attribution is on spine.
Some water damage, upper outer corner of first portion; first two leaves have been repaired.

Penn Provenance:

George Poulin (ca. 1500); Alexandre de Keller (19th century).
Purchased, 1953.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 57 (Ms. French 20).
R. Bossuat, Manuel bibl. de la litt. franç. (Melun, 1951), p. 542.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 622.

Contributor:

Keller, Alexandre de, former owner.
Poulin, George, former owner.

OCLC:

155971526

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