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Add MS 59677
- Record Id:
- 032-001998124
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001998124
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x000221
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100182437140.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 59677
- Title:
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Pierre Sala, Fables
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a collection of 13 animal Fables in French verse, written by the French poet Pierre Sala (b. c. 1457, d. c. 1529), and dedicated to Louise de Savoy (b. 1476, d. 1531), Duchess of Angoulême and regent of France. This manuscript was intended as a presentation copy, but was ultimately set aside, and a second manuscript (now New York, Morgan Library, MS 422) was presented to her instead.
Contents:
ff. 2r-21v: Pierre Sala, Fables, written in French verse, beginning with a dedication to Louise de Savoy (ff. 2r-7r), and ending with a colophon (f. 21v), 'V[ost]re treshumble-hobeissant subjet et serviteur tresloyal Sa et la a de sa main escript se petit iel pour vous donner passetems cest sala'.
f. 1v is blank.
Decoration:
14 full page miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 7v, 8v, 9v, 10v, 11v, 12v, 13v, 14v, 15v, 16v, 17v, 18v, 19v, 20v).
Laurel wreaths in green with brown ties surrounding both verses and images (ff. 7v-21v), each incorporating 4 roundels in red, decorated with gold wings, the emblem of Louise de Savoie.
Initials and line fillers in red in the dedication (ff. 2r-8r).
The subjects of the miniatures are as follows:
ff. 7v-8r: The arms of Louise de Savoie held by an angel with a sceptre and crown in a landscape, opposite a verse beginning, 'Ce bel escu'.
ff. 8v-9r: A nanny goat leaves her kid safe in a shed while a wolf watches, opposite a verse beginning, 'Le chievre a son chevreul'.
ff. 9v-10r: Men wth axes chopping trees and building a fence, opposite a verse beginning, 'En presence du loup'.
ff. 10v-11r: A fly stings a donkey, opposite a verse beginning: 'La mouche pique fort'.
ff. 11v-12r: A man with a staff and a noose training a dog, opposite a verse beginning, 'Le serf en sa belle umbre'.
ff. 12v-13r: A man with a net catching birds, opposite a verse beginning 'De lui sont faiz les raiz'.
ff. 13v-14r: Three hares run out of a wood, opposite a verse beginning, 'Au vent tremblet les feuilles'.
ff. 14v-15r: A dog with a piece of meat in its mouth swims across a stream, opposite a verse beginning, 'Ung chien passa[n]t ung fleuve'.
ff. 15v-16r: A donkey greets a wild boar, opposite a verse beginning, 'Le sangler a desdaing quant lasne le sallue'.
ff. 16v-17r: A horse in armour looks at a donkey eating grass, opposite a verse beginning, 'Le gras cheval sorgueille en son riche arnoys'.
ff. 17v-18r: A lion caught in a net talks to a mouse, opposite a verse beginning, 'Le lion a pitie de la soris quil tient'.
ff. 18v-19r: A lion is kicked by a donkey, bitten by a wild boar and gored by a bull, opposite a verse beginning, 'En foiblesse est venu le lion par viellesse'.
ff. 19v-20r: A cleric performs a marriage in front of a chapel, opposite a verse beginning, 'Ung larron se marie saiges feste nen font'.
ff. 20v-21r: A shepherd takes a dog on a lead towards a seated wolf, opposite a verse beginning, 'Le berger so[n] chien baille au loup pour pais conclure'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001998124
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001998124
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100182437140.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1525
- End Date:
- 1526
- Date Range:
- 1525-1526
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 195 x 150 mm (text space: 135 x 100 mm).
Layout: 1 column of 12 lines (ff. 2-7) and 8 lines (ff. 8-21).
Foliation: ff. viii + 21 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the end). f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf; ff. i and viii are pastedowns to the upper and lower bindings; ff. ii-v are labels and notes pasted to f. i; f. vi is a parchment flyleaf ; f. vii is a label pasted to f. 1r.
Script: Humanistic cursive, written by Pierre Sala.
Binding: Post-1600. White pigskin covers, gold-stamped with the Brölemann family arms on the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Lyons, France.
Pierre Sala (b. c. 1457, d. c. 1529), French poet, written by him in 1525-1526: his inscribed colophon, ''V[ost]re treshumble-hobeissant subjet et serviteur tresloyal Sa et la a de sa main escript se petit iel pour vous donner passetems cest sala' (f. 21v); his dedication to Louise de Savoie (ff. 2r-8r; see below).
Provenance:
Louise de Savoie (b. 1476, d. 1531), Duchess of Angoulême: dedicated to her (ff. 2r-8r) and with her emblem of the laurel wreath throughout; dated by a reference in the dedicatory poem to the imprisonment of her son, Francis I (r. 1515-1547), King of France, in Madrid, from September 1525 to March 1526 (see Backhouse, 'Pierre Sala' (1983) ). This manuscript was intended as a dedication copy to Louise of Savoy, but it was set aside, and a second manuscript, now New York, Morgan Library, MS 422 was presented to her instead.
Henri-Auguste Brölemann, (d. 1854) collector, and by descent to his grandson, Arthur Brölemann (b. 1826, d. 1904), bibliophile: his ex-libris (f. i), the Brölemann family arms on the binding and the press-mark AB196/uc.cx on a paste-down to f. 1r.
Mme Étienne Mallet, great-granddaughter of Henri-Auguste Brölemann: her sale, Sotheby's, 4-5 May 1926, lot 192.
Bought by the British Library from Miss Jean Grattan, 13 April 1976.
- Publications:
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The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, New Series 1976-1980 (London: British Library, 1995), p. 8.
Elizabeth Burin, 'Pierre Sala's Pre-Emblematic Manuscripts', Emblematica, 3.1 (1988), 11-24, fig 7.
Janet Backhouse, 'Pierre Sala: Emblesmes et devises d'amour', in Renaissance painting in manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren (New York: Hudson Hills; London: British Library, 1983), p. 173, fig. 22f.
Les manuscrits enluminés des comtes et ducs de Savoie, ed. by Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Turin: Umberto Allemandi, 1990), pp. 207, 222.
Daniel S Russell, Emblematic structures in Renaissance French Culture (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1995), p. 259.
Arts et Humanisme: Lyon Renaissance, ed. by Ludmila Virassamynaїken (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 2015), p. 278.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)