Legenda aurea, Vol. 1.

Description

Title: Legenda aurea, Vol. 1.
Creator: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1450]
Publication Place: Paris, France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1228-1298), Legenda aurea, in French translation according to Jean de Vignay (c. 1285-1350).
Description: In Middle French.
Script: Copied by various similar hands, all writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Formata (Bastarda).
Decoration: Red headings and underlinings; alternately red and blue paragraph marks; yellow heightening of majuscules; 2-line dentelle initials in gold, blue, and red, with white penwork; 3-line initials of the same type and with the same decoration; and on f. 1r, 6-line foliate initial and two-column-wide oblong miniature showing the translator presenting his work to queen Jeanne, ascribed to the Master of the Cité des dames.
Binding: Eighteenth century brown calfskin over cardboard, with undecorated covers but five raised bands and an inscription on the spine.
Provenance: Formerly owned by the library of the college of the Jesuits in Paris (until 1763). Ex libris Countess Anne-Thérèse-Philippine d'Yve (1738-1814). Formerly owned by Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872). Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. iii (paper) + 328 + i (paper) : 280 x 205 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 1123
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Genre: Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: Parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Subject (Topic): Christian hagiography
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
Christian hagiography
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
d'Yve, Anne-Thérèse-Philippine, Countess, 1738-1814 > Bookplate

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Citation: Jaocobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.