Details

Subjects:

Women in literature.
Women -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Women.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Middle French.

Biography/History:

Secretary of Anne of Brittany.

Summary:

A partial copy of Jean Marot's La vray-disant, advocate des dames, originally written for Anne of Brittany, including most of the envoy of "Champ Royal," two rondeaux, a rebus, and the concluding section, "Ballade de la Paragonne des Dames," in which the letters at the start of the lines spell "Anne de Bretagne."

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title, author, and date from Zacour-Hirsch.
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern parchment) + 10 + i (modern parchment); modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines; frame-ruled in ink; pricking present on most folios.
Script: Written in a hybrid Gothic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Paragraph symbols and line endings in red and gold or blue and gold.
Binding: Modern vellum.
Origin: Written in France, ca. 1506 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

"Ce livre est à moy / Jane Gaillarde" (f. 10r, visible with ultraviolet light).
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1962.

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. 67-68 (Ms. French 66).

Publications about:

Marot, Clement. Oeuvres (The Hague: Gosse & Neaulme, 1731), Vol. 5. Lenglet Dufresnoy's preface to the work discusses the text tradition and extant manuscripts (278-282), followed by the text itself (283-313).
Theureau, Louis. Étude sur la vie et les oeuvres de Jean Marot (Caen: Blanc-Hardel, 1873), 92-103, 185; Ehrlich, Arwed. Jean Marots Leben und Werke (Leipzig, 1902), 18-24, 97.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 956

Contributor:

Anne, 1476-1514, of Brittany, Consort of Louis XII, King of France, dedicatee.

OCLC:

155925618