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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
D'Esclavonie, Georges. and Benedictines.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
