Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Le livre des Eneydes

Authors

• Virgil

Other related names

• Saint-Gelais, Octavien de, 1468-1502, translator
• Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946, former owner
• Barrois, Joseph, ca. 1785-1855, former owner
• Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878, former owner
• Gougy, Lucien, former owner
• La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de, 1708-1780, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 909
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9940098043503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80325406
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4009804 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3rn30860

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1510

Place

France

Summary

French translation by Octavien de Saint-Gelais of Virgil's Aeneid, in decasyllabic couplets.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

161 leaves : 370 x 290 (274 x 227) mm bound to 389 x 297 mm

Foliation

Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 161 + ii (modern paper); [1-161]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

17th-century red morocco, rebacked.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in red ink.

Script

Written in bâtarde script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold in the collection of Gabriel Wells at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, November 13, 1951, lot 562.
   
• Sold by the fifth earl of Ashburnham as part of the Barrois collection at auction at Sotheby's, June 10, 1901, lot 607.
   
• Purchased, 1951.
   
• Sold by Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, at auction at De Bure, 1783, lot 2459.
   
• Held in the collections of Joseph Barrois and then Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham.
   
• Sold in the collection of Lucien Gougy at auction by Charles Bosse of Hôtel Druot, February 10, 1936, lot 2811.
   

Subjects topical

• French poetry--16th century
• French poetry--To 1500
• Legends--Rome--Poetry

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Epic poetry
• Poetry
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, French--15th century

Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• Literature -- Poetry

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