Manuscript leaf from De casibus virorum illustrium.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 leaf : parchment ; 330 x 296 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p31p4qDigital facsimile for download (OPenn)
https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs255.html - Status/Location:
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- Standardized Title:
- De casibus virorum illustrium. French (Middle French). Selections
- Subjects:
- Phaedra (Greek mythological character) -- In literature.
Theseus, King of Athens -- In literature. - Form/Genre:
- Fragments (object portions)
Illuminations.
Translations (documents)
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance. - Language:
- In Middle French.
- Summary:
- Partial leaf from a mid-15th century copy of Laurent de Premerfait's second translation of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium, from the chapter on Theseus (10.1-17), beginning with the rubric Le Xe chappitre contient le cas de Theseus, roy dathenes, Et commence ou latin Athene. Written in lettre bâtarde by a single hand in France, possibly Paris, in 2 columns, bottom of the leaf missing, 48 lines extant out of approximately 60, frame-ruled in lead. Decorated on the recto with an unfinished (outlines and touches of color) 26-line miniature depicting the suicide of Phaedra in the larger upper section and Theseus in exile in Cyprus in the smaller lower section; a border of flowers, acanthus leaves, and gold ivy leaves above the left column and an unfinished (gold leaves only) border on the left side of the left column; and a 5-line initial in pink on gold ground.
- Local notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold at auction at Christie's, 3 June 1998, lot 11, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Cited as:
- Oversize LJS 255
- Contributor:
- Laurent, de Premierfait, -1418, translator.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) - OCLC:
- 829862908
- Web link:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page