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Royal MS 14 E V
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- 040-002107006
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- 032-002105724
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00009c
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JEHAN BOCCACE de Certald, 'Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes maleureux': the later of the two French translations made by Laurens du Premierfait of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus illustrium virorum et feminarum. Made for the Duke of Berry in 1409 (see Paulin Paris, MSS. François de la Bibl. du Roi, Paris, 1836, i, p. 233, ii, p. 231, &c.). Preceded by a dedicatory letter, 'O puissant noble et excellent prince Jehan', second prologue (f. 11 b, printed in Verard's edition, but the texts differ in some degree) 'Selon raison et bonnes meurs', and preface of Boccaccio (f. 12 b) 'Quant jenqueroye quel prouffit'. Text beg. 'Quant je considere et pense'. At the end are Laurent's verses to Boccaccio in Latin and French, both printed by P. Paris, op. cit., i, p. 249.
Vellum; ff. 513. 19 in. x 131/2 in. A. D. 1470-1483. Gatherings of 8 leaves (i4, xxxvii6), with catchwords. Double columns of 37 lines. Executed, doubtless at Bruges, for a King of England [Edward IV?], whose arms, with Yorkist badges, occur frequently in the borders, once (f. 174) accompanied by another shield differenced with a label of three points, probably for his eldest son, afterwards Edward V (cf. 14 E. I, &c.). At f. 488 arms, az. three crowns in pale or, are intended for S. Edmund. The miniatures (nine large and sixty-seven small) do not seem to be connected with the early copper-plates made for Colard Mansion's edition of 1476 (facsimiles by D. Laing, Edinburgh, 1878) or the woodcuts of Verard's or Schabeler's (1493) editions. No. 42 is given on a reduced scale in pl. 87. The subjects are:
1. The Duc de Berry, seated on the right, receives a book from the translator: courtiers, &c., and on the left a jester, a dwarf with dog and perforrning ape; in background a carved chimney-piece and settle. A figure is reproduced in Strutt, Dress and Habits, cxxviii, fig. 2. f. 5 (large).
2. Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise. f. 13 b.
3. Flight of Medea and Jason. f. 24 b.
4. Banquet of Thyestes. f. 30.
5. Meleager and Atalanta. f. 37 b.
6. Death of Priam. f. 45 b.
7. Samson and Delilah. f. 54 b.
8. Philistines carry off Saul's head. f. 64 (large).
9. Death of Athaliah. f. 74.
10. Death of Dido. f. 77 b.
11. Uzziah usurps the priestly office. f. 88.
12. Astyages' dream. f. 94.
13. Death of Cyrus. f. 105.
14. Death of Mettius Fuietius. f. 110.
15. Fortune and the poor man. f. 113 b (large).
16. Death of Lucretia. f. 121 b.
17. Death of Cambyses. f. 132 b.
18. Death of Xerxes. f. 139.
19. Death of Artabanus. A figure in Strutt, op.cit., cxxxiii, fig. 1. f. 144 b.
20. Death of Appius Claudius. f. 147.
21. Death of Demosthenes, the Athenian general in Sicily. f. 152 b.
22. Death of Hanno. f. 163 b.
23. Deposition of Evagoras(?). f. 168.
24. Death of Artaxerxes' children. f. 171 b.
25. Death of M. Manlius Capitolinus; good buildings on right. f. 174 (large).
26. Exile of Dionysius (?). f. 181.
27. Death of Darius. f. 192.
28. Death of Olympias. f. 202.
29. Agathocles and the wife of Damas. f. 207.
30. Death of the children of Arsinoe and Lysimachus, with motto 'Fortune tournant sa roe A maintes fait souuent la moe'. f. 217 b.
31. Death of Demetrius in the anns of Arsinoe. f. 227.
32. Death of Antiochus and Seleucus. f. 233 (large).
33. Death of Regulus. f. 239.
34. Death of Nabis: motto 'Traison ma fait dommage et ma fait le cuer dolent'. f. 251.
35. Death of Antiochus the Great. f. 256 b.
36. Death of Hannibal. f. 263 b.
37. Captivity of Perses. f. 270.
38. Death of Alexander Balas. f. 275.
39. Death of C. Gracchus. f. 277.
40. Death of Demetrius Nicator. f. 280 b.
41. Death of Jugurtha. f. 287 b.
42. Fortune and Boccaccio. f. 291 (large).
43. Death of Mithridates and his family. A figure in Strutt, cxxiii, fig.
2. f. 306.
44. Death of Herodes (i.e. Orode motto 'Ainsi va le monde tousdis joyeulx'. f. 313 b.
45. Death of Pompey. f. 318 b.
46. Death of Ptolemy Xll. f. 329.
47. Death of Cicero. f. 334 b.
48. Death of Antony and Cleopatra. f. 339.
49. Death of Antonius, son of the triumvir. f. 349 (large).
50. Tiberius, Caligula,and Messalina. f. 357.
51. Death of Nero. f. 365.
52. Death of Vitellius. f. 375 b.
53. Destruction of Jerusalem. f. 383.
54. Petrarch and Boccaccio: motto 'Josne et joyeulx'. f. 391 (large).
55. Death of Domitian. f. 395.
56. Captivityof Zenobia, f. 406 b.
57. Death of Galerius Maximianus. f. 413 b.
58. Death of Julian. f.419.
59. Death of Radagaisus. f. 428 b.
60. Death of Arthur. f. 439 b.
61. Death of Rosamund and Emelcis. f. 446.
62. Death of Maurice. f. 450 (large).
63. Death of Brunhilda. f. 454 b.
64. Death of Constantine III. f. 460.
65. Mutilation of Justinian II. f. 464.
66. Pope Joan. f. 468.
67. Pope John XII, f. 471.
68. Imprisonment of Robert of Normandy. f. 474.
69. Death of T.Andronicus. f. 477 b.
70. Death of Henry, King of the Romans. f. 484.
71. Sicilian Vespers. f. 488.
72. Burnin of Templars. f. 492 b.
73. Death of Philippe le Bel. f. 497 b.
74. Death of Gautier de Brienne. f. 499 b.
75. Death of Philippota of Catena. f. 506 b.
76. Imprisonment of John of France. f. 510.
With the inscriptions noticed in nos. 30, 34, 44, 54 may be compared those in miniatures, perhaps by the same hand, in 18 E. III, IV (dated 1479) and 19 E. V (dated 1480). Sec. fol. in table 'doiuent auenir', in text 'et a sa mocquerie'. Perhaps one of the nos. 33, 43, 77 in cat. of MSS. at Richmond Palace in 1535 (cf. 14 D. I); cat. of 1666, ff. 113 or 14 b ; not in CMA.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Royal Collection
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- 032-002105724
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- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 14 E V : JEHAN BOCCACE de Certald, 'Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes maleureux': the later of the two French translations made by… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1205]/040-002107006
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1470
- End Date:
- 1483
- Date Range:
- 1470-1483
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- CE
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Ursula Pieters, Das Ich im Bild: die Figur des Autors in volksprachigen Handschriften des 13. bis 16. Jahrhunderts (Cologne: Bohlau, 2008), p. 219.
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