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Add MS 30024
- Record Id:
- 032-002021615
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002021615
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000034.0x00020a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057739446.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 30024
- Title:
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Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor, composed in 1260:
ff. 3r-8v: Table of chapters, with seven sections marked by rubrics;
ff. 8v-91r : Book 1, La Naissance de Toutes Choses, a universal history of the world, in three sections (two leaves after f. 48, two leaves after f. 63 and the end of Chapter 18 (f. 63r) are lacking);
ff. 91r-124r : Book 2, L'Ethique d'Aristote;
ff. 124r-245r : Book 3, Les Vices et les Vertus (ff. 124-181r); La Rhétorique (ff.181r-226v); Le Gouvernement des Cités (ff. 226v-245r).
Decoration:
2 full-page miniatures in colours with gold, one containing twenty-one divisions (f. 1v), the other a tree, with branches and labels in red or blue (f. 2r). 7 historiated initials marking the major divisions, in colours on gold grounds with partial borders and geometric decoration in red and blue with gold, one (f. 8v), with display script in gold (ff. 8v, 54v, 64v, 91r, 124r, 181r, 226v). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour, some with zoomorphic decoration or human heads. Rubrics and chapter numbers in red.
f. 1v: The arts and sciences, with a crowned woman above, perhaps Philosophy, holding two cities in outstretched arms;
f. 2r: The tree of virtues (right) and vices (left), with a naked figure in the middle;
f. 8v: A figure in a cap, perhaps Brunetto Latini, writing under a canopy with a hybrid creature watching;
f. 54v: Male and female hybrid creatures with crowns;
f. 64v: A ship on the sea with fish;
f. 91r: A figure in Eastern dress holding a book of Aristotle, instructing a king, perhaps Alexander;
f. 124r: A tonsured cleric holding an open book;
f. 181r: A figure in a cap with dividers;
f. 226v: A seated figure in a cap with an open book on a stand.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002021615", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 30024: Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002021615
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002021615
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057739446.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1260
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 1260-1299
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Available for research unless otherwise stated
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 210mm (written space: 225 x 160mm).
Layout: Two columns of 29 lines.
Foliation: ff. 246 (f. 246 is a small paper leaf inserted after f. 245 + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end). Foliation in roman numerals in the upper right of each recto folio, beginning at f. 9r.
Collation: i 2 + 8(ff. 1-10) ii-v8 (ff. 11-50), vi8-2 (ff. 51-55), vii 8 (ff. 56-64), viii8-2 (ff. 65-70), ix-xxx8 (ff. 71-238), xxxi 8+1 (ff. 239-[iii]). Quire numbering and catchwords.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling and gold fore-edges
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, South.
Provenance:
Notes in Latin in a 19th-century hand on an added paper leaf (f. 246r).
William Bragge (b. 1822, d. 1884), engineer and antiquary, his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, lot 44; bought by the British Museum for £30.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), pp. 21-22.
Hermann Varnhagen, 'Die handschriften Ewerbungen des British Museum auf dem Gebiete des Altromanischen in dem Jahren von 1865 bis Mitte 1877', Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 1 (1887), 541-55 (p. 548).
F.J. Carmody, 'Brunetto Latini's Trésor: A Genealogy of 43 MSS,' Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 56 (1936), 93-99 and 60, (1940), 78-82.
Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Tresor, ed. by Francis J. Carmody (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948) [for an edition of the text].
F. Vielliard, 'La tradition manuscrite du Livre dou Trésor de Brunet Latin: Mise au point,' Romania 111 (1990), 141-52, (C2; pp. 143-44).
Alison Stones, ‘The Illustrated Manuscripts of Brunetto Latini, Le Trésor’ in The City and the Book, II: The Manuscript, the Illumination, ed. Julia Bolton Holloway (Florence, 2002), online at http://www.florin.ms/beth5.html#stones [accessed 8.2.2017].
Julia Bolton Holloway, ‘Brunetto Latino, Maestro di Dante Alighieri: An Analytic and Interactive Bibliography’, online at http://www.florin.ms/BrunLatbibl1.html, C2 [accessed 8.2.2017].
John Sabapathy, 'A Medieval Officer and a Modern Mentality: Podesta and the Quality of Accountability' The Mediaeval Journal, 1.2 (2011), 43-79 (pp. 48, 51-54, 60).
John Sabapathy, Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170—1300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 2-4, 9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)