General
Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
Sheflmark: | nouv. acq. françaises 10053 |
Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (1) |
Described by: | dschoenaers |
Bindings
Description: | Dark green leather binding, the coats of arms of D'Urfé gold-tooled on the front and back. In the corners, the monogram C (double, the second mirrored and intertwined, combined with L?). Decorative roses gold-tooled on the spine. |
Date : | None |
Title on binding: | [none] |
Cover material: | Material object (5) |
Board material: | None |
Fastening: | |
Chaining: | |
Edges: | gilt |
Front end papers (3): | Two paper guardleaves at the front, contemporary with those at the back. One additional, original flyleaf at the front, contemporary with the rest of the manuscript. On the recto of this guardleaf is a title: 'Le liure de orose co(m)mencant a la creacion du monde', and a 16th-c. ex-libris: 'A madamoiselle Anne de grauille / dame du boys de mallesherbes / v.c xxj'. An annotation below has been made illegible but refers to 'Orose'. |
End papers (7): | Seven paper guardleaves at the back. The watermark 'b' with forked ascender and cross on top differs from the one in the body of the manuscript, but is the same in the guardleaves at the front. |
MS Parts
Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
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Le liure de orose co(m)mencant / a la creacion du monde // | c. 1460 to 1500 | France | Louis Malet de Graville, or alternatively his daughter, Anne, who is the first known owner of the manuscript. |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
Shelfmark: | nouv. acq. françaises 10053 |
MS Part Title: | Le liure de orose co(m)mencant / a la creacion du monde // |
Ms Part Folios: | 186 folios |
Page layout: |
Material
MS Part Material: | Material object (1) |
Watermark: | Three lilies in a coat of arms, crowned with a letter below, height: 88mm, width 39mm, width between chainlines 40mm. |
Condition: | In good condition. |
Date Information
Date(s): | c. 1460 to 1500 |
Notes: | The type of watermark frequently occurs in paper used in the Low Countries and Germany c. 1460 to 1490. |
Hand
Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
Folio(s): | From f. 2ra to f. 187rb |
Date(s): | c. 1475 to 1500 |
Scribe description: | Written by one hand in a cursiva bastarda, close to currens level. |
Folios: f. 2ra - f. 187vb
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9r - 143r
(§1-513) Genesis (Common redaction)
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143r - 149v
(§1-22) Orient I (Common redaction)
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149v - 180r
(§23-125) Thebes (Common redaction)
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180v - 187r
(§126-147) Greeks and Amazons (Common redaction)
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