Accession number
MS M.929
Object title
Epître d'Othéa la déesse à Hector.
Created
France, between 1450 and 1475.
Binding
French 18th century calf; spine is gilt-tooled with olive morocco label, red edges.
Credit line
Gift of Curt F. Bühler in memory of his wife Frances L. Bühler; 1966.
Description
109 leaves (1 column, 27-30 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 250 x 185 mm
Provenance
Sir Thomas Phillipps (Ms. 2964); Bernard Quaritch for Curt F. Bühler.
Notes
Ms. verse; written and decorated in France in the third quarter of the 15th century.
Crown watermarks are similar to Briquet 4645-4646, recorded in Lyon, 1459-1469 and Azeglio, 1473; chariot watermark (Briquet 3533 and 3536) is localized in southern France, Switzerland, and Italy, and 3536 was still in use in Lyon from 1469-1472--Cf. PML files.
Texts: Christine de Pisan, Epître d'Othéa la déesse à Hector, preceeded by the dedication to Louis, duc d'Orleans (fol. 1-104); La destruction de Troye, an anonymous poem with 52 four-line stanzas (fol. 105-109).
Each text is by a different scribe.
Decoration: the first letter of each passage is in a bold and flourished script; the text is in brown ink, with headings in red, and initials in red and blue.
Crown watermarks are similar to Briquet 4645-4646, recorded in Lyon, 1459-1469 and Azeglio, 1473; chariot watermark (Briquet 3533 and 3536) is localized in southern France, Switzerland, and Italy, and 3536 was still in use in Lyon from 1469-1472--Cf. PML files.
Texts: Christine de Pisan, Epître d'Othéa la déesse à Hector, preceeded by the dedication to Louis, duc d'Orleans (fol. 1-104); La destruction de Troye, an anonymous poem with 52 four-line stanzas (fol. 105-109).
Each text is by a different scribe.
Decoration: the first letter of each passage is in a bold and flourished script; the text is in brown ink, with headings in red, and initials in red and blue.
Script
bastarda
Language
Middle French
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Display Date
between 1450 and 1475.