[Le livre des Eneydes]

Contributor:

Saint-Gelais, Octavien de, 1468-1502 (translator)

Name:

Virgil

Timespan:

To 1500; 16th century

Date:

1450

Description:

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

Language:

French

Provenance:

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 by the fifth earl of Ashburnham as part of the Barrois collection at auction at Sotheby's, June 10, 1901, lot 607.; Sold in the collection of Lucien Gougy at auction by Charles Bosse of Hôtel Druot, February 10, 1936, lot 2811.; Sold in the collection of Gabriel Wells at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, November 13, 1951, lot 562.; Purchased, 1951.; La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de, 1708-1780, former owner.; Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855, former owner.; Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878, former owner.; Gougy, Lucien, former owner.; Wells, Gabriel, 1861-1946, former owner.

Relation:

Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/61612

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); epic poems; poems; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 161 + ii (modern paper); 1-9⁸ 10⁶ 11-20⁸ 21⁶⁻¹(-3); [1-161], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto..Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in red ink.; Script: Written in bâtarde script by a single hand.; Decoration: Yellow capital strokes; large space left for illuminations at the beginning of each chapter.; Binding: 17th-century red morocco, rebacked.; Origin: Written in France between 1450 and 1510.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 909