Miracle plays of Saint Nicholas

Description

Title: Miracle plays of Saint Nicholas
Published / Created: [ca. 1400]
Publication Place: Eastern France
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of eight miracle plays celebrating the life and miracles of St. Nicholas in French verse, with headings and stage directions in Latin
Description: In French and Latin.
Watermark: Crescent, var. Briquet 5175 (1393-1520; the papers recorded by Briquet were used in Geneva, Fribourg and Grandson).
Script: Copied by two scribes writing Gothica Cursiva Currens: A copied ff. 1r-17v; B, writing a larger and more coarse script, copied ff. 18r-25v.
There is no decoration.
Binding: Undecorated original limp parchment binding. At the top of the rear cover the handwritten contemporary title: “Papirus ludi sancti Nycholay Peialbi?? (Petri Albi = Aubepierre-sur-Aube?)”. On the inner side of the cover is a Latin notarial document on parchment, dated 24 November 1371.
Provenance: Given in 1998 by Bronson Pinchot (Yale 1981) in memory of his grandfather Francesco Asta.
Extent: ff. 25 : 300 x 105 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Nicholas, Saint, Bp. of Myra.
Subject (Topic): French poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Mysteries and miracle-plays
Subjects: Nicholas, Saint, Bp. of Myra
French poetry > To 1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Mysteries and miracle-plays
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Miracle Plays of Saint Nicholas. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.