Details

Standardized Title:

Aeneis. French

Subjects:

French poetry -- To 1500.
French poetry.
French poetry -- 16th century.
Legends -- Rome -- Poetry.

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Epic poetry.
Poetry.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Summary:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
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.
Decoration: Yellow capital strokes; large space left for illuminations at the beginning of each chapter.
Binding: 17th-century red morocco, rebacked.
Origin: Written in France between 1450 and 1510.

Penn Provenance:

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 by the fifth earl of Ashburnham as part of the Barrois collection at auction at Sotheby's, June 10, 1901, lot 607.
Sold in the collection of Lucien Gougy at auction by Charles Bosse of Hôtel Druot, February 10, 1936, lot 2811.
Sold in the collection of Gabriel Wells at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, November 13, 1951, lot 562.
Purchased, 1951.

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.55 (Ms. French 4).
Brückner, Thomas. Un traducteur de Virgile inconnu de XVIe siècle : Jean d'Ivry. Les lettres Romanes, XLIV, n.3, August 1990, pp. 171-180. A copy is shelved with manuscript.

Publications about:

Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 190-91 (cat. 53).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 909.

Contributor:

Saint-Gelais, Octavien de, 1468-1502, translator.
La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de, 1708-1780, former owner.
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855, former owner.
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878, former owner.
Gougy, Lucien, former owner.
Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946, former owner.

OCLC:

155925177