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Royal MS 20 C IV
- Record Id:
- 040-002107684
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0003cb
- LARK:
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 20 C IV
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'LE LIVRE de Iehan Bocace des cas des nobles hommes et femmes translate de latin en francois par Laurens de Premierfait clerc du diocese de Troyes; et fut complie ceste translacion le xxve. iour dauril .milcccc. et .ix. et est assauer. le lundi apres pasques closes' (so colophon, but the dates do not agree- 15 Apr. is meant): the second translation made by Laurent, Cf. 14 E. V, 18 D. VII. Dedication beg. 'A puissant noble et excellent'; the other prefaces and text nearly as in 14 E. V. The verses at the end are not given.
Vellum; ff. 1 + 348. 151/2 in. x 111/4 in. First half of the XV cent. Gatherings (beg. f. 1) of 8 1eaves (xxviii6), with catchwords. Double columns of 39 lines. Sec. fol. 'estre inchie'. Illuminated initials, miniatures, and borders in French style. The subjects are:-
1. Fortune (blindfold, with green wings) turning her wheel, on which are seated kings, a knight, lawyer(?), and others; above, on r., a Divine figure, issuing from a cloud, holds a scroll; on l., also with scroll, is a sage in a cave; below, on either side, spectators. f. 1 (full border).
2. Adam (with apple) and Eve, the Serpent with human head. f. 8.
3. Priam and his son Polites killed before the altar. f. 30.
4. Death of Saul. f. 43.
5. Struggle of Fortune and Poverty at the cross-roads. f. 77 b.
6. Death of Manlius. f. 119.
7. Murder of Barsine and her son Hercules. f. 145.
8. Seleucus II, saved from the wreck of his fleet, is greeted as king: vindmill in background. f. 160.
9. Caecilius Metellus in car leads the Macedonian usurper Andriscus in triumph. f. 186 b.
10. Boccaccio in his study, and his vision of Fortune as a crowned lady with many arms. f. 198.
11. Mark Antony fails on his sword.
239 b.
12. Siege of Jerusalem. f. 263 b.
13. Boccaccio in discourse with Petrarch in his study. f. 269.
14. Brunhilda torn to pieces by horses. f. 310 b.
On the fly-leaf (f. i) is the note 'transiu[i]t per manus x. videlicet illius qui min[i]auit in margine, qui illuminauit litteras, qui fecit ystorias, qui fecit collaturas [et] mu[n]dauit, qui religauit, qui deaurauit folia, qui fecit clauos, qui fecit ligaturas, qui deaurauit eas, qui posuit et affixit eas'. On f. 1 are the joined initials HR of Henry VII or VIII. Old large numbering 95; old Royal pressrnark 'no. 100' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 5); cat. of 1666, f. 13 or 14 b ; not in CMA.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107684 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 20 C IV : 'LE LIVRE de Iehan Bocace des cas des nobles hommes et femmes translate de latin en francois par Laurens de Premierfait clerc… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1825]/040-002107684
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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