Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Other related names

• Laurent, de Premierfait, d. 1418, translator

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959171953503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/829867034
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5917195

Publisher

Language

Summary

Partial leaf from a mid-15th century copy of Laurent de Premerfait's second translation of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium, from the chapter on Theseus (10.1-17), beginning with the rubric Le Xe chappitre contient le cas de Theseus, roy dathenes, Et commence ou latin Athene. Written in lettre bâtarde by a single hand in France, possibly Paris, in 2 columns, bottom of the leaf missing, 48 lines extant out of approximately 60, frame-ruled in lead. Decorated on the recto with an unfinished (outlines and touches of color) 26-line miniature depicting the suicide of Phaedra in the larger upper section and Theseus in exile in Cyprus in the smaller lower section; a border of flowers, acanthus leaves, and gold ivy leaves above the left column and an unfinished (gold leaves only) border on the left side of the left column; and a 5-line initial in pink on gold ground.

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Christie's, 3 June 1998, lot 11, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Phaedra (Greek mythology) in literature
• Theseus (Greek mythology) in literature

Genres

• Fragments
• Illuminations
• Translations
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• French
• France
• Fragment
• Illumination
• Literature -- Poetry
• Literature -- Prose

Licenses

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Decorations

• Side 1 — Illuminated miniature, unfinished, Side 1
• Side 1 — Illuminated initial, Initial A, Side 1
• Side 1 — Illuminated border, unfinished, Side 1