Collection ID: 0028 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Les regnars traversant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde

Authors

• Bouchet, Jean, 1476-approximately 1558 (http://viaf.org/viaf/46755492)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 197/30
(Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum & Library)

Alternate identifiers

• Leaves-of-Gold: 74
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2971

Publisher

Rosenbach Museum & Library

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Ghent?, Low Countries

Summary

This manuscript represents the sole known illuminated copy of a text by Jean Bouchet entitled Les Regnars traversant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde. Employing the fox as a metaphor for the vices of contemporary man, Bouchet's text and the nine accompanying miniatures denounce all estates of society: the king, the nobility, the clergy, the merchant class, and the common people. The author was a law clerk and rhetorician from Poitiers, France, but this manuscript copy of his text was produced for Philip the Handsome, archduke of Austria, while he was duke of Burgundy and count of Charolais. A slightly different version of this text was published, with woodcuts, by the Parisian publisher Antoine Vérard in late 1503 or early 1504.

Notes

• Fol. 40v contains an acrostic of the author's name
   

Extent

Ii+44+ii; 371 x 250 mm bound to 383 x 262 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (8), 3 (6), 4 (8, -5), 5 (8), 6 (8, -8)

Signatures

Modern pencil signatures A1-F1 in lower right corners at folios: 9r, 17, 23r, 30r, 38r

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Partially cropped vertical catchwords visible in lower right corners at folios: 8v, 16v, 22v, 37v

Binding

Vellum with label on spine, eighteenth century

Layout

Two columns of thirty-six lines; ruled in purple ink; written area: 248 x 180 mm

Decoration

One half-page miniature with full border and coat-of-arms, three half-page miniatures, and five column-width miniatures; nine decorated initials

Script

Bâtarde

Related resources

• The Huth Library: A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Engravings, Collected by Henry Huth, with Collations and Bibliographical Descriptions, vol. I, nos. A-C (London: Ellis and White, 1880), p. 188.
• Britnell, Jennifer, Jean Bouchet (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1986), p. 331 (with present location unknown to author).
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 215-217, no. 74.
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2971/)

Keywords

• 16th century
• Illustration
• Miniature
• Belgium
• Literature -- Poetry
• Illumination
• Christian

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 197/30: Les regnars traversant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 197/30: Les regnars traversant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Les regnars traversant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde; incipit: Demandez vous se je fais bonne chiere [fol. 1r]; explicit: Et tout le caz à justice cometz, Laquelle équité tousjours dure [fol. 44r]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate
• fol. 1r — Large miniature, Author portrait
• fol. 1r — Illusionistic border
• fol. 1r — Coat-of-arms
• fol. 10r — Small miniature, Creatures
• fol. 13r — Small miniature, Creatures
• fol. 18v — Small miniature, Creature
• fol. 21v — Small miniature, Creature
• fol. 24r — Small miniature, Creatures