La Cite des dames; With Jacques le Grand, Le Livre de bonnes moeurs
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Description
- Title
- La Cite des dames; With Jacques le Grand, Le Livre de bonnes moeurs
- Creator
- Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
- Contributor
- Legrand, Jacques, approximately 1365-1415.
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1450]
- Publication Place
- France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of Christine de Pizan, La Cite des dames. With Jacques le Grand, Le Livre de bonnes moeurs
- Description
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In French.
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Char 3533 and Briquet Main 11086.
Script: Written by a single hand in small, even batarde.
On f. iii verso, pasted in by a later owner, a miniature (80 x 61 mm.) of the Queen of Sheba before Solomon, and a separate compartmentalized border (161 x 105 mm.) of blue and gold acanthus on pink, and red, purple and white flowers and grapevines, both with black dots and hair-spray, probably from different Northern French Books of Hours (Paris or Rouen), ca. 1500. The whole is set within single horizontal and vertical rulings in red ink, full length and full across. A label identifying the scene in the miniature, written in black ink (16th century?), has been inserted inside the border on a separate piece of parchment. Pasted in on f. 137v a small miniature (41 x 32 mm.) of St. Barbara, originally for a Suffrage, probably from the same Book of Hours as the border of f. iii verso. Seven initials (3- or 2-lines) in red or blue with blue or red penwork flourishes. Rubrics (faded) throughout.
Some wormholes toward end of codex, not affecting text.
Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Worn red velvet, rebacked. Sewing and endbands possibly earlier. - Provenance
- Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1964, with the Edwin J. Beinecke and Frederick W. Beinecke Fund.
- Extent
- ff. iii + 209 + ii : 263 x 178 (188 x 130) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 318
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431.
- Subject (Topic)
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Books of hours
Didactic literature, French
French literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Women authors, French - Subjects
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Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
Books of hours
Didactic literature, French
French literature > To 1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Women authors, French
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Christine de Pizan, La Cite des Dames; With Jacques le Grand, Le Livre de Bonnes Moeurs. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9787951
- Object ID (OID)
- 2014437
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