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Title

Pronosticque historial de la félicité future de l'an mil cincq cens et douze

Authors

• Lemaire de Belges, Jean, 1473-1524 (http://viaf.org/viaf/97996712)

Other related names

• Anne, of Brittany, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1476-1514, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/44273323)
• Walter Henry Bracebridge, former owner
• Shirley, Evelyn Philip, 1812-1882, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/38290766)
• Ettington Manuscript Library, former owner
• Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/56752944)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 232/11
(Philadelphia, United States, Rosenbach Museum & Library)

Alternate identifiers

• Library-of-Evelyn-Philip-Shirley: 6
• Ettington-Manuscript-Library: 9

Publisher

Rosenbach Museum & Library

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Paris, France

Summary

This sixteen-folio manuscript is entitled the Pronosticque historial de la félicité future de l'an mil cincq cens et douze. The text was written and signed by the Walloon poet and historiographer Jean Lemaire de Belges, and is an autograph copy produced for the Queen of France, Anne of Brittany. It appears to be the sole surviving exemplar of this unpublished and unknown text, and includes a colophon with the date and motto of the author (fol. 15v) and his signature (fol. 16v). The text concerns a prediction surrounding the auspicious circumstances at the beginning of the year 1512. The first page opening includes the queen's Castilian motto "NON MUDERA" inherited from her Spanish mother, as well as the year in Roman numerals in two red banderoles, which frame a star-like emblem with a cypher containing the letters of ANNA BONA (fol. 1v). The text is accompanied by a short poem [fols. 16r-16v], also by Lemaire and unpublished, entitled Double virelay dont chacun couplet a xii lignes de nouvelle invention.

Notes

• Handwritten description by John Holmes (1800-1854) of the British Museum pasted onto third flyleaf
   

Extent

V+16+v; 188 x 126 mm bound to 195 x 134 mm

Foliation

Modern pencil foliation, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (8)

Signatures

Faint letter "a" visible on bottom right of folios 3r and 4r

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth- or nineteenth-century tooled and stamped red leather

Layout

Single column of eighteen lines, ruled in brown ink; written area: 133 x 80 mm

Decoration

Emblem and cypher within a twelve-pointed gold star and banderolles on fol. 1v; decorated initials and line endings on blue and red backgrounds throughout; display script on fols. 1r and 15r

Script

Bâtarde

Colophon

Fin. Fait à Paris ou commencement de janvier, mil cincq cens et douze, prins à la nativité. De Peu Assez [fol. 15v]

Provenance

• Presumably gifted to Anne of Brittany, Queen of France; Walter Henry Bracebridge, Esq.; given by him to Evelyn Philip Shirley in 1865 along with twenty volumes of printed books (as per note on inside cover); Ettington Manuscript Library; A.S.W. Rosenbach
   

Keywords

• Accounts
• 16th century
• French
• History

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• Insert i recto — Provenance notes
• Insert i verso — Provenance notes
• Insert ii recto — Provenance notes
• fol. 1r — Title page, Pronostication historiale sur la révolution de l'an mil Vc et XII
• fol. 1v — Dedication page
• fol. 2r — Jean Lemaire de Belges, Pronosticque historial de la félicité de l'an mil cinq cens et douze; incipit: Jasoit ce très haulte et très redoubtée Princesse que il sembleroit de primeface... [fol. 2r]; explicit: ...à laquelle dieu doint éternelle prospérité. Fin. [fol. 15v]
• fol. 16r — Jean Lemaire de Belges, Double virelay dont chacun couplet a xii lignes de nouvelle invention; incipit: Haultains espritz du grand Royal pourpris... [fol. 16v]; explicit: ...Aidez-moy donc nobles espritz haultains [fol. 16v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Evelyn Philip Shirley
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Ettington Manuscript Library
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bookplate, Walter Henry Bracebridge
• fol. 1v — Emblem and cypher
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 5v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 8v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 11r — Decorated initial A
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Ettington Manuscript Library
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bookplate, Walter Henry Bracebridge