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De clères et nobles femmes.

Title: De clères et nobles femmes.
Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Publication: Paris?, France, approximately 1470.

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Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. MS. 33	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

78 leaves, bound : vellum, ink, manuscript, illuminations; 405 x 286 mm

Alternative Title

Cy commence le livre qui feist Iehan bocace de certalde des cleres et nobles femes lequel il envoye a andree des actiorales de florence ce comtesse de haulteville; le premier chapitre ou quel est mis le prohesme.

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Genre/Form

Manuscripts – France – 15th century.
illuminated manuscripts.
Illuminated initials (layout features)
vellum (parchment)
bastarda.

Note

Produced ca. 1460-70 in Paris or the Ile-de-France, originally with 105 miniatures; when sold at auction in 1920, it had 95 leaves and 93 miniatures (now reduced to 78 leaves and 76 miniatures); present location is known for 7 of the missing 29 miniatures.
Leaves have been removed from the manuscript. The 78 folios are preceded and followed by two vellum folios and four paper folios.
De claris mulieribusin an anonymous French translation known in 3 other mss; f. 78r-v contains a list of the 104 chapters.
Layout: Written in 46 lines per page in two columns, ruled in black or red ink. Some signatures survive.
Decoration: 76 miniatures (one at beginning of each chapter), in which the main personnages are often labeled in gold. Floreate border on pages with miniatures. Illuminated blue and red 4-line initials on gold fields open each chapter. Rubrics.
Script: Bâtarde
Artist: Maître François, follower of.

Access (note)

Restricted use.

Indexed In (note)

The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005)
Ricci, S de. Medieval and Renaissance mss.

Cite As (note)

NYPL. Spencer Coll. MS. 33

Source (note)

Marcel Blancheteau;

Language (note)

French (Middle French)

Provenance (note)

Jacques d'Armagnac. Arms f. 3, attributed to Claude, seigneur de Vissac (1415 - 1476). Dr. Thomas Hobart (d. 1728), Cambridge. Mostyn sale, Sotheby's, 13 July 1920 to Sabin. The'ophile Belin, 1926; sold at wife's auction.

Binding (note)

Bound in tanned calf with a matching box, by NYPL in 1937; previous (original?) binding in green velvet with brass bosses in the centers of both covers.

Source of Description (note)

Part of the description used is from Digital Scriptorium 1.0

Call Number

Spencer Coll. MS. 33

OCLC

1335084470

Author

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Title

De clères et nobles femmes.

Imprint

Paris?, France, approximately 1470.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005), n. 98.

Ricci, S de. Medieval and Renaissance mss., p. 1342, no. 33.

Access

Restricted use. Requires permission for access.

Cite As:

NYPL. Spencer Coll. MS. 33

Language

French (Middle French)

Provenance

Jacques d'Armagnac. Arms f. 3, attributed to Claude, seigneur de Vissac (1415 - 1476). Dr. Thomas Hobart (d. 1728), Cambridge. Mostyn sale, Sotheby's, 13 July 1920 to Sabin. The'ophile Belin, 1926; sold at wife's auction.

Binding

Bound in tanned calf with a matching box, by NYPL in 1937; previous (original?) binding in green velvet with brass bosses in the centers of both covers.

Source

Purchased; Marcel Blancheteau; Paris; February 20, 1936.

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NYPL Digital Collections

Place of Publication

France Paris

Added Author

Maître François, follower of, illuminator.

Nemours, Jacques d'Armagnac, duc de, 1433-1477.

New York Public Libary. Manuscript. Spencer Coll. MS 33.

Other Title

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. MS. 33

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