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Title

Lestorement du monde

Other related names

• Pease, John William, 1820-1900, former owner
• Wardington, Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, Lord, 1924-2005, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 17
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Web)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977880950203681

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

147-?

Place

Poitou?, France

Summary

Digital facsimile of a 15th-century illuminated copy of a 13th-century universal history from Creation through the life of Julius Caesar, including episodes from Biblical, mythologoical, and classical history. The text, dedicated to Rogier, châtelain of Lille, is a compilation derived from the work of multiple historians, including Eutropius, Orosius, Livy, Lucan, and Suetonius. Images of front cover, front flyleaves, outside back cover, and spine are not included. The location of the manuscript after its sale in 2006 is unknown.

Notes

• Title from rubric (f. 1r, viewed 18 December 2020).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 324 x 224 (212 x 153) mm.
   

Extent

1 online resource (351 leaves) :

Collation

Parchment, 351 leaves; 1-10⁸ 11⁸⁻¹(-6) 12-15⁸ 16⁸⁻²(-1 and another leaf lacking) 17-22⁸ 23⁸⁻¹(-4) 24-32⁸ 33⁸⁻¹(-6) 34-44⁸ 45⁸⁻⁴ (-5, 6-8 lacking or cancelled);contemporary foliation in roman numerals in red ink (1-95), later (17th-century?) foliation in roman numerals in black ink (96-351), upper center, 1-26, 26, 28-44, [45], 46-85, [87], 88-226, 228-291, 291-344, 344-351. Horizontal catchwords, lower right last verso.

Support

Color illustrations.

Binding

Late 18th-century French morocco, gilt, orange silk pastedowsn and endleaves, gilt edges (catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale; not included in digital facsimile).

Layout

Written in two columns of 37 lines; ruled in faint ink.

Decoration

Miniatures attributable to the workshop of the Master of Jeanne de Laval, possibly in Poitou (catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale); opening leaf with 9-line initial, 18-line column miniature of the creation of Adam, and full floral and acanthus border with 2 coats of arms (f. 1r); 2 extra-wide column miniatures in color and liquid gold (Alexander and a two-headed monster, 19 lines high,1 column wide plus the space between columns, f. 239v; Pompey entering Rome in triumph, 9 lines high, 1 column wide plus the space between columns and space in the lower and outer margins, 346v); 48 column miniatures in color and liquid gold, from 11 lines to 23 lines high;11 6-line or 7-line illuminated initials and 1 4-line initial (f. 299v) in floral designs in red, blue, and orange with white tracery on burnished gold grounds; 2-line or 3-line initial at the start of each chapter in burnished gold on red and blue grounds with white tracery; paragraph marks alternating between blue and burnished gold throughout; rubrication in red throughout.

Script

Written in lettre bâtarde.

Provenance

• Originally owned by Yves du Fou, knight, counsellor and chamberlain to Louis XI, Grand Veneur de France (1472), Governor of the Dauphiné (1457), landowner in Brittany and Poitou (Sotheby's).
   
• Formerly owned by Alexander Douglas, tenth duke of Hamilton (HB monogram described in catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale).
   
• Consigned by descendants of Douglas as part of the Hamilton Palace collection of manuscripts to Sotheby's for sale at auction in 1882, lot 243.
   
• Sold as part of the Hamilton Palace collection of manuscripts, purchased en bloc by the Prussian government prior to the scheduled sale in 1882.
   
• Sold by the Prussian government with 60 other Hamilton manuscripts to antiquarian bookseller and publisher Karl J. Trübner, Strasbourg, after 1883.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of this group of Hamilton manuscripts from Berlin to London booksellers and publishers Robson & Kerslake, 23 May 1889, lot 47.
   
• Formerly owned by John William Pease (1820-1900, Wardington, Oxfordshire) and by descent by his grandson, Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, second Lord Wardington (gilt booklabel inside lower cover described in catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale).
   
• Gift of Lord Wardington to the bookseller Charles W. Traylen (Guildford, Surrey) in exchange for an atlas, circa 1980.
   
• Sold by Charles W. Traylen to the bookseller Heribert Tenschert (then in Rotthalmünster, Germany; later in Ramsen, Switzerland).
   
• Appears in Heribert Tenschert's Catena Aurea (catalog 16, 1984), no. 10 with plate on back cover.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 26 November 1985, lot 107.
   
• Sold by Lawrence J. Schoenberg at auction at Sotheby's to an unknown purchaser, 6 July 2006, lot ?
   

Subjects topical

• World history--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Annals and chronicles
• Illuminated manuscripts
• Manuscripts, French,--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Lestorement du monde

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Column miniature, God creating Adam
• fol. 1r — Full floral and foliate border
• fol. 4r — Column miniature, God accusing Cain
• fol. 6v — Column miniature, Noah and the ark
• fol. 30r — Column miniature, Lot, Lot's wife, and the destruction of Sodom
• fol. 34r — Column miniature, Sacrifice of Isaac
• fol. 42v — Column miniature, Isaac blessing Jacob
• fol. 54r — Esau and the city of Domas
• fol. 62r — Column miniature, Joseph and Potiphar's wife
• fol. 65r — Column miniature, Pharaoh and his astronomers
• fol. 67r — Column miniature, Joseph's triumphal procession
• fol. 67v — Column miniature, Jacob's sons depart for Egypt
• fol. 73v — Column miniature, Joseph before his brothers in Egypt
• fol. 74v — Column miniature, Jacob's sons return
• fol. 77r — Column miniature, Jacob and Pharaoh
• fol. 79r — Column miniature, Jacob's funeral
• fol. 81r — Column miniature, Victory of King Ninus
• fol. 88v — Column miniature, Oedipus and the Sphinx
• fol. 93v — Column miniature, King Adrastus, page, and knights
• fol. 109v — Column miniature, King Adrastus and the tiger of Phoedrus
• fol. 115r — Column miniature, Athenian captives
• fol. 117r — Column miniature, Egyptians and Scythian Amazons in battle
• fol. 117v — Column miniature, Queen of the Amazons
• fol. 119r — Column miniature, Hercules, Theseus, and Amazons in battle
• fol. 120v — Column miniature, Hercules and Antaeus
• fol. 130r — Column miniature, Death of Hector
• fol. 138v — Column miniature, Queen Penthesilea and Amazons at Troy
• fol. 139r — Column miniature, King Pyrrhus and Queen Penthesilea in battle
• fol. 142r — Column miniature, Death of Priam
• fol. 145v — Column miniature, Departure of Aeneas from Troy
• fol. 153v — Column miniature, Suicide of Queen Dido
• fol. 169v — Column miniature, Turnus and Drances before King Latinus
• fol. 182v — Column miniature, Brutus Valerius enters Rome
• fol. 203v — Column miniature, Achior outside Bethulia
• fol. 204v — Column miniature, Judith and the Assyrians
• fol. 206r — Column miniature, Judith with the head of Holofernes
• fol. 217v — Column miniature, Haman led to the gallows
• fol. 231r — Column miniature, Alexander the Great and the priests
• fol. 232r — Column miniature, Alexander the Great and the queen of the Amazons
• fol. 233v — Column miniature, Alexander the Great and Pyrrhus in battle
• fol. 237r — Column miniature, Alexander the Great and a three-horned monster
• fol. 239v — Large column miniature, Alexander the Great and a two-headed monster
• fol. 245v — Column miniature, Joust of Alexander and Pyrrhus
• fol. 255r — Column miniature, Army of Pyrrhus, with elephants
• fol. 270v — Column miniature, Roman soldiers at the Temple of Janus
• fol. 289v — Column miniature, Romans and Carthaginians in battle
• fol. 290v — Column miniature, Quintus Flaminius leading Roman soldiers
• fol. 322v — Column miniature, King Jugurtha and the consul Marius in battle
• fol. 323r — Column miniature, King Jugurtha in captivity
• fol. 346v — Large column miniature, Pompey's triumphal procession
• fol. 347r — Column miniature, Julius Caesar and Roman senators