Le Chateau de virginite

Description

Title: Le Chateau de virginite
Creator: D'esclavonie, Georges
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1450]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Georges d'Esclavonie (canon of the Cathedral of Tours), letter to Dame Isabelle de Villeblanche, a nun at the Benedictine convent of Beaumont-les-Tours; the work was apparently presented to her 31 December 1411, and this would seem to be an early copy
Description: In French.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat gothic script with batarde influence. Annotations and corrections by a contemporary hand.
One simple initial on f. 1r (4-line) in red; other plain initials (3-line) alternating red and blue. Headings, paragraph marks, strokes on initials, in red.
Water damage in lower margin of most leaves, ff. 13-54.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Red straight-grained goatskin, wide gold-tooled floral border, with owner Richard Weir's "broken cable" roll. Gold-tooled panels on spine. Edges gilt. Title on spine: CURIEUX/ MSS SUR VELLIN.
Provenance: Bought by Payne and Foss for Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 8337). Acquired from Alan G. Thomas, 28 December 1970, by Edwin J. Beinecke for the Beinecke Library.
Extent: ff. iii + 54 + iii : 206 x 131 (152 x 99) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): D'Esclavonie, Georges.
Benedictines.
Subject (Topic): French literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monasticism and religious orders
Subjects: D'Esclavonie, Georges
Benedictines
French literature > To 1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Monasticism and religious orders
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Georges d'Esclavonie, Le Chateau de Virginite. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.