L'arbre des batailles

Description

Title: L'arbre des batailles
Creator: Bovet, Honore
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1500]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Honore Bovet (often erroneously named Bonet, c. 1345-1405), L'arbre des batailles, composed between 1386 and 1389
Description: In French.
Accompanied by: Typescript of an English translation by G. W. Coopland: The Tree of battles of Honore Bonet (sic). With a hitherto unpublished historical interpolation translated by G. A. Knowlson ... Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1949. Catalogued as Beinecke MS 605a.
Watermark: similar to Briquet 389 (?).
Script: Probably copied by one hand, writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Bastarda).
In art. 1 red heightening of the majuscules. In art. 2 paragraph marks and underlining in red; red 2-line plain initials; at the opening of the text (f. 5r) 4-line red and blue littera duplex without penwork. Guide-letters.
Binding: ca. 1900 by Chambolle-Duru. Crimson morocco over cardboard, preserved in fleece-lined folder. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled title: "L'ARBRE DES BATAILLES PAR HONORE BONNET - MANUSCRIT DU QUINZIEME SIECLE". Gilt edges.
Provenance: Purchased from C.A. Stonehill on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, 9 Febr. 1979.
Extent: ff. iii + 142 + iii : 270 x 190 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Bovet, Honore.
Subject (Topic): French literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Military art and science
Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417
Subjects: Bovet, Honore
French literature > To 1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Military art and science > Early works to 1800
Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Honore Bovet, L'Arbre des Batailles. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.