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Add MS 15641
- Record Id:
- 032-002087433
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087433
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x00033d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15641
- Title:
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Christine de Pizan, Livredes trois vertus
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Christinede Pizan, Le Livre destrois vertus (The Book of the Three Virtues), an educational treatise forwomen composed in 1405, with the alternative title, Le Trésor de la cité des dames. Written in three books. The text belongs to Willard's Northern group (Willard, Trois vertus, 1989).
ff. 1r-93v: Book 1, preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-2v).
ff. 94r-132r: Book 2, preceded by a table of contents (ff. 94r-v).
ff. 133r-175v: Book 3 preceded by a table of contents (ff.133r-v).
Decoration:
Rubrics in red. Initials in red or in brown with red penwork decoration, some with extensions into the margins and human heads (e.g. f. 42v). Line-fillers and highlighting in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002087433", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 15641: Christine de Pizan, Livre__NEWLINE__des trois vertus" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087433
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002087433
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper
Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm (text space: 150 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 176 (ff. i and 176 are paper flyleaves + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end + 1 unfoliated paper leaf following f. 93).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Library in-house; rebound in 1983.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
Petrus Ruffei (=Ruffie) ?Esq: his name inscribed beneath the explicit on f. 174v, with the number 13 and '[et] bis' in a hand of the 16th century.
'Dum tempus habemus operemur bonum' (St Paul's letter to the Galations 6:10) written on the lower flyleaf in an early modern hand (f. 175v).
Purchased by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd, Bookseller, 13 December 1845. - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 40.
Edith Yenal, Christine de Pisan: a bibliography (London: Scarecrow, 1982), pp. 46-47.
Charity Cannon Willard, Christine de Pizan, Le Livre des trois vertus, edition critique (Paris: Honore Champion, 1989), p. xxiii.
Sarah Delale, Diamant obscur: interpréter les manuscrits de Christine de Pizan, Publications romanes et françaises, 271 (Genève: Droz, 2021).
'Le Tresor de la Cite des Dames: Oeuvre de Christine de Pizan', online at Arlima: Archives de Litterature du Moyen Age, ed. by Laurent Brun (updated 2022), online at https://arlima.net/no/10308 [accessed 29.09.22].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Christine de Pizan [da Pizzano], 1364-c 1430,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121033731 - Related Material:
- From the printed Cataloge of Additions (1850): LE LIVRE des troys Vertus [raison, droiture, et justice] à l'enseignement des Dames , in three parts, with a general preface, and a table of chapters to each part, by Christine de Pisan. On paper. xvth cent. Octavo. [15,641.]