Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin
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Description
- Title
- Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin
- Creator
- Cuvelier, Jo, active 1372-1387
- Published / Created
- [between 1300 and 1499].
- Publication Place
- Northern France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Cuvelier (ca. 1350-1400), Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin
- Description
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Script: Probably copied by one hand only, writing in a small Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Bastarda). The present version deviates from the basic text, edited by J.-C. Faucon (Toulouse, 1990).
Decoration: At the opening of the text (f. 1r), there is a 7-line historiated initial S which ends in a serpent head; Bertrand du Guesclin straddles the letter and pierces the serpent head with a spear. Over his armor, Bertrand wears his coat of arms. The left-margin foliate bar border is blue and gold and issues golden and red vine leaves. The full width of the lower margin shows a colored pen-and-ink drawing of an army preparing to storm a castle in the right margin. And throughout the text, there are 2-line flourished initials in gold (brown?) ink with brown or red penwork; guide-letters.
Binding: 18th century parchment over cardboard; both covers gold-tooled with a border of palmettes and a fleur-de-lys in the each corner; gold-tooled spine with six raised bands, the compartments decorated with small fleur-de-lys stamps, and a gold-tooled red morocco title-label with inscription. The former rear pastedown (f. 125) is a large fragment of a now badly damaged document in French on parchment, written in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens (Bastarda); on the blank verso of this document (now f. 125r), there are pen-and-ink drawings of various coats of arms and several signatures and inscriptions in French, Flemish, and Latin by 15th-16th century hands.
In Latin. - Provenance
- Formerly owned by Richard Heber (1773-1833); Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872). Purchased from H.P. Kraus, New York, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Extent
- ff. 124 : 365 x 270 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 990
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Cuvelier, Jo, active 1372-1387.
- Subject (Topic)
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Manuscripts, Medieval
Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern). - Subjects
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Cuvelier, Jo, active 1372-1387
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern).
France > 14th century
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Heber, Richard, 1773-1833 > Ownership
Phillipps, Thomas, 1792-1872 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Jean Cuvelier, Bertrand du Guesclin. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 9892502
- Object ID (OID)
- 10518569
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