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Title

La destruction de Troye ... etc.

Authors

• Milet, Jacques, approximately 1425-1466

Other related names

• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153, attributed name
• Churchill, Robert, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 658
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874443503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615100
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487444

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

after 1450

Place

France

Summary

Collection of 3 separate works: Les lamentacions Saint Bernard [misattributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux] (f. 1r-8v); La destruction de Troye by Jacques de Milet [in verse] (f. 9r-449r); and Le mystère de la Passion de Notre Sauveur Jesus Christ, translated from Latin in 1398 for Isabel of Bavaria, queen of France (f. 449v-487r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for first work from heading (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit: Cy comance Les lamentacions Saint Bernard.
   
• Title and attribution for second work from rubric following prologue: Cy aupres se sensuit la destruction de Troye translatee de latin en francoys mise par personnaiges par Maistre Jacques Millet estudiant en loys à Orleans l'an mil cccc et l" (f. 13v).
   
• Title for third work from f. 449v; incipit: [A] la louenge Dieu de la Vierge souveraine de tous sains et de toutes sainctes et a la request de tres excellante et redoubte dame et puissant princesse dame Ysabel de Baviere reyne de France j'ai translate ceste Passion ... l'an de grace mil troys cens quatre vingtz et dishuit ... (f. 450r).
   
• Date of composition of third work is 1398. La destruction de Troye, the second work, was composed 1450-1453, with the date of 1450 given at the end of the prologue (f. 13v).
   
• Spine title: Bernard of Clairvaux.
   

Extent

487 leaves : 297 x 207 (215 x 140) mm. bound to 310 x 213 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 487 + i (modern paper); [1-487]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern half leather over original boards, both covers detached.

Layout

Written in 34 long lines; ruled in drypoint.

Decoration

Red used for some initials, with occasional decorations of faces and flourishes; capitals touched with yellow.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Robert Churchill (inscription, flyleaf i recto).
   
• Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 816 (1954), no. 151.
   

Subjects topical

• French poetry--To 1500
• Mysteries and miracle-plays, French
• Religious drama, French

Genres

• Codices
• Mystery plays
• Plays (document genre)
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Christian
• France
• Paper
• Drama

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Les lamentacions Saint Bernard, f. 1r
• fol. 9r — La destruction de Troye, f. 9r
• fol. 449v — Le myste?re de la Passion de Notre Sauveur Jesus Christ, f. 449v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 1r
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 9r