Livre du roy Modus, etc.

Description

Title: Livre du roy Modus, etc.
Published / Created: [between 1490 and 1500]
Publication Place: France,
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Les livres du roy Modus et de la royne Ratio. 2) Le bon chien Soullart (in verse).
Description: Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter purple leather with textured cloth sides.
Penwork drawing (with red added) of the hound, Soullart, on f. 59r; drawing of a lion (?) in same style on f. 60r. Simple decorative initials and headings in red, blue and/or black; some with calligraphic penwork designs and grotesques extending into margins. Paragraph marks, underlining, and highlights, in red.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a running script, with a more formal style of writing for headings.
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tete de cerf 15548, Tete de boeuf 14247, and unidentified unicorn.
Extent: ff. vi + 60 + vi : paper ; 283 x 202 (224 x 156) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

Format: text
Genre: Drawings
Manuscripts
Material: paper
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Dogs
French literature--To 1500
French poetry--To 1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Mathematics, Medieval
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Livre du Roy Modus, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 121.

Orbis Record: 9799406
Object ID (OID): 10712709
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms121.htm