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Title

L'outré d'amour pour amour morte

Authors

• Chastellain, Georges, 1405?-1475 (http://viaf.org/viaf/314808066)

Other related names

• Jaupitre, Jean, former owner
• Thiboust, Jacques, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/59436508)
• Gallon, former owner
• Brochard, Jos., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 443/21
(Philadelphia, United States, Rosenbach Museum & Library)

Publisher

Rosenbach Museum & Library

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Angers?, France

Summary

This short rhymed poetic work by Georges Chastellain, entitled L'outré d'amour pour amour morte, is an example of a Roman à clef, a narrative describing actual events presented as a fictional account using altered names. The manuscript was likely produced in Western France in the 1460s or 1470s, judging by the style of the bâtarde script and the four unframed miniatures (four more spaces for miniatures remain blank). The manuscript in question was once owned by Jacques Thiboust, a noted humanist book-collector in early-sixteenth-century France, and bears his stamped bookplate on the verso of the front flyleaf and the verso of folio 37, as well as various other ownership inscriptions hand-written by Thiboust. This manuscript appears to be a previously unnoticed addition to Thiboust's library.

Notes

• Flyleaf following folio 37 is actually an unnumbered blank folio
   
• "Cy commance le livre de l'outré d'amour pour amour morte" written, perhaps by Thiboust, in upper margin of fol. 1r
   
• For Jacques Thiboust, see Boyer, Hippolite, Un ménage littéraire en Berry au XVIe siècle, Jacques Thiboust et Jeanne de La Font (Bourges: Impr. et Lithographie de Ve. Jollet-Souchois, 1859; Omont, H., "Un Nouveau Manuscrit de Jacques Thiboust de Bourges," Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de La France 4, no. 1 (1897): pp. 92–97; and Le Clech-Charton, S., "Jacques Thiboust, notaire et secrétaire du roi et familier de Marguerite de Navarre: amitiés littéraires dans le Berry du 'Beau seizième siècle,'" Cahiers d 'Archéologie et d'Histoire du Berry 96 (March 1989), pp. 17-28; a manuscript of the anonymous La voie d'enfer et de paradis also owned by Jacques Thiboust and bearing similar ownership marks, is Les Enluminures, TM 775; other books owned by Thiboust are discussed in Le Clech-Charton 1989
   
• For L'outré d'amour, see Lemaire, Jacques, "L'Oultré d'Amour de George Chastelain: un exemple ancien de construction en abyme," Revue romane 11 (1976): 306-316
   
• For Thiboust's stamped armorial bookplate, perhaps the earliest of its kind to be used in France, see Rau, Arthur, "The Earliest Extant French Armorial Ex-libris," The Book Collector (Fall 1961), pp. 331-332; the author provides another example of the ex-libris found in Jacques Thiboust's copy of Le couronnement du roi Francois [Paris, 1520], today at Yale University Library
   
• One or more gatherings appear to be missing between folios 7 and 8
   

Extent

I+37+ii; 253 x 174 mm bound to 264 x 185 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; modern pagination inclusive of pastedowns in lower right recto

Collation

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

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords visible in lower right hand corners of folios: 7v, 21v, 28v, 36v; partially-cropped horizontal catchwords visible in lower right hand corners of versos 1v, 2v, 3v, 8v, 9v, 14v, 23v

Binding

Brown stamped and tooled leather with original boards; spine missing; linear cuts across front and back covers

Layout

One column of twenty-six ruled lines, generally three stanzas per page; ruled in red ink; written area: 154 x 88 mm

Decoration

Four miniatures by a French painter of the Loire Valley school, perhaps from Angers; four additional spaces left empty for miniatures; fields of some gold initials have been left unpainted; marginal drawings of heads in an eighteenth-century style are visible on several folios

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Ownership note in a fine bâtarde script on upper pastedown reads: "C'est au Seigneur de Quantilly M. Jacques Thiboust, notaire et secrétaire du Roy et esleu en Berry. Et le luy a donné sire Jehan Jaupitre son frère. En mars 1535." ; stamped armorial bookplate of Jacques Thiboust ("écartelé au 1 et 4 d'argent à la face de sable, chargé de trois glands d'or accompagné de trois feuilles de chêne de sinople, deux en chef, une en pointe; au 2e d'argent à une anille de moulin de sable [Dumoulin] ; au 3e d'or à deux perroquets adossés de sinople [Rusticat]; et sur le tout d'azur à une étoile-comète d'or [Villemer]) with mottoes "Lex et Regio" and "Qui voit s'esbat" found on verso of first flyleaf and on fol. 37v; "Qui voit s'esbat - Thiboust" written below bookplate on fol. 37v; "des livres de M. Jacques Thiboust" written on lower pastedown; additional early notes "mars 1535" and "Gallon" on recto of first flyleaf; "Jos. Brochard" written in an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century hand on first lower flyleaf
   

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — L'outré d'amour pour amour morte; incipit: Pensant songeant à demi troublé [fol. 1r]; explicit: L'outré d'amour pour amour propre

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 verso — Armorial bookstamp, Jacques Thiboust
• fol. 1r — Large miniature, The author dreaming
• fol. 6r — Large miniature, A knight and a squire
• fol. 7v — Blank space for a large miniature
• fol. 10r — Blank space for a large miniature
• fol. 16r — Large miniature, The author making an offering to Love
• fol. 17r — Large miniature, The author and a friend
• fol. 28v — Blank space for a large miniature
• fol. 36v — Marginal drawings, faces
• fol. 37r — Blank space for a large miniature
• fol. 37r — Marginal drawings, faces
• fol. 37v — Armorial bookstamp, Jacques Thiboust
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Marginal drawings, faces
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Marginal drawings, faces
• Flyleaf 2 verso — Marginal drawings, faces