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Title

Libro fortune

Call number

Ms. Codex 735
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935670733503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84501357
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3567073

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

ca. 1450

Place

France

Summary

A poem in couplets set in 1345 in which Fortuna appears to a prisoner in a dream and introduces herself; interprets the vision of Fortune's wheel; discusses tangible and intangible wealth; and refers to the author's name in an unsolved riddle.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from explicit (p. 192).
   
• Page 1-192: "[prologue beginning is damaged; text] En l'an de l'incarnacion Que Jhesus suffrit passion ... Et dont me vint si grant merveille Atant fut jour et je m'esveille. [rubr.] Deo gracias explicit libro fortune."
   

Watermark

Letter N topped with a cross resembles the mark of paper made in Dijon as early as 1390 (Briquet, vol. 3, watermark no. (N)8427, similar to watermarks on paper manufactured at Pisa, Rodez, Toulouse, and Turin).

Extent

98 leaves : 174 x 125 (128-136 x 67-80) mm. bound to 178 x 127 mm

Foliation

Paper, xii (modern paper) + 98 + xii (modern paper); 1-2¹⁶, 3¹⁸, 4-6¹⁶; 1-51, 50-83, 82-192; near contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Catchwords on last verso of each gathering.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century calf stamped with coat of arms and decorated with gold.

Layout

Written in 21-27 long lines; ruled in drypoint.

Script

Written in a cursive bastarda hand (Grigsby).

Provenance

• Coat of arms of the Vicomte de Villiers du Terrage on binding (Grigsby).
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.
   

Subjects topical

• Fortuna (Roman deity)
• Fortune
• Christian poetry, French--15th century

Genres

• Allegories
• Codices
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• Paper
• Literature -- Poetry
• Allegory
• Fortune-telling

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