Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, 233
Historia universalis (supplied title)
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General information
| Folios | 429 |
| Language | Language object (3) |
| Approx. date | c. 1470 |
| Date notes | 'vers 1470', on art historical grounds (van Buren-Hagopian 1996, 232); 'secondo metà del Quattrocento' (Palermi 2004, 245). |
| Place(s) of production | Bruges, Flanders'Centro scrittorio dei Duchi di Borgogna', on palaeographical and art historical grounds (Casanatense catalogue, II:30); 'France (Bourgogne)' (Jung 1996, 350). |
| Table of contents | |
| First words of second recto folio | [f. 2ra] aucuns plus longuement |
| First words of last recto folio | [f. 426ra] voulsist yssir de la cíte |
| Incipit | [f. 4ra] UOyant iadis / les anciens / lumaíne me / more estre la / bile . et la vie tresfraile et tres / brieue . parquirent et estudie- / rent lescripture non sans gra(n) / de paine et labeur , affin meis / mement que les choses de leurs / temps gestez et aduenuez qui / de memore estoient dignez ne / perissent ou euanouíssent des / lors . |
| Explicit | [f. 426vb] ¶ Et adoncquez quant pom / peius fut reuenus en la cite de / romme furent telement toutez / les bataillez appaisíeez sicomme / eutropíus raconte quil nen estoit / nulle qui grantment leur fust / greuable par toutez les partiez / du monde . |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | na |
| Condition: | Very fine parchment, with the odd stitched tear (e.g. f. 10), and creasing due to the tightness of the binding. |
Structure
| Collation: | 1-212324115-2212231124-3612379 |
| Quire structure: | Generally senions. The end of the table (ff. 28-9) is a bifolium. Quire 4 is wanting its first leaf (the first folio of the text proper), and the third leaf of quire 23 is also missing. |
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| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (4) |
Physical description
| No. of illustrations: | 11 |
| General illustration: | Two half-page miniatures in colour (ff. 147r and 172r), and nine grisailles (height: 9 to 12 lines), on ff. 86v, 110r, 115v, 142r, 205v, 297r, 325r, 361v, 391r. For further details, see the Casanatense catalogue, III:29. On the attribution to Loyset Liédet (or his atelier), see Di Domenico 1959 and van Buren-Hagopian 1996, 232. |
| General decoration: | The prologue opens on f. 4r with an illuminated initial (height: 4 lines), incorporating an unexecuted shield, with a rich floral border. Other major divisions are similarly marked by decorated initials and borders. Chapters are marked by champ initials (height: 2 lines) in gold, red and blue. Champ paraphs mark the start of paragraphs. Chapter headings and numbers are rubricated. Majuscules are highlighted, and line-fillers (bars and flowers) are present in gold, red and blue. |
| Evidence of readership: | On f. 426v, beneath the explicit, in a hand contemporary to that of the copyist: 'La toute <vostre> / vostre Jossíne de bríade / la toute votre fransoise / de Wínnízele'. On f. 427r, in the same hand: 'de alle uwe fransoíse / van Wínnízele'. |
| Foliations description: | Two foliations, both defective: one printed in the lower right of recto sides; the other in pencil in the upper right of recto sides (the latter followed here). |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
| Page sampled | f. 41r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 421x305 (mm) |
| Justification | 282x181 (mm) |
| Columns | 2mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (1) (RulingMaterials object (1) ) |
| Lines | 36Line ruling present in Colours object (1) (RulingMaterials object (1) ) |
| Rubrication | |
| Writing above top line? | False |
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Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (3) |
| Script | Script object (7) |
| Folio range | From 1 to 426 |
| Date | c. 1470 |
| Scribe description: | Bastard script, with various forms of looped and loopless 'd', 'g' with a single horn, round 'r' and majuscule 'R' in initial position, round 's' with an angular 3-shaped second stroke. The few abbreviations that occur are restricted to the end of the line. |
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