Livre de bonnes meurs; Les peines d'enfer

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Title: Livre de bonnes meurs; Les peines d'enfer
Creator: Legrand, Jacques, approximately 1365-1415
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: France (Burgundy)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper containing Jacques Legrand (c. 1360-1415/1418), 1) Livre de bonnes meurs 2) Les peines d'enfer, a treatise in verse on the torments of Hell
Description: In French.
Script: probably copied by two hands, both writing a small Gothica Cursiva Currens: A copied artt. 1-2, B copied art. 3 in even smaller script.
Brittle and defective edges due to moisture.
Red stroking of majuscules (art. 1); red stroking of the punctuation and red underlining (art. 2). 2-line plain initials, alternately red and blue, with guide letters.
Unbound.
Provenance: MS 208 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, California. Purchased from him.
Extent: ff. i + 36 + i : 305 x 220 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: French

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Legrand, Jacques, approximately 1365-1415.
Subject (Topic): Didactic literature, French
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Legrand, Jacques, approximately 1365-1415
Didactic literature, French
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Jacques Legrand, Livre de bonnes meurs; Les peines d'enfer. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.