Histoire de la destruction de Troye la grant
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Description
- Title
- Histoire de la destruction de Troye la grant
- Creator
- Milet, Jacques, approximately 1425-1466
- Published / Created
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- Northern France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment and paper of 1) Jacques Milet, Histoire de la destruction de Troye la grant. A stage-play on the Trojan War. 2) Unpublished fifteenth-century poem in alexandrines known as L'abrege selon Daire et Dithis or L'abrege de Troie. Apparently this text should have been followed by a song, which was never entered
- Description
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In French.
Script: Written by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Formata (Bastarda). The initial of the verse on the top line is lengthened into a calligraphic initial, occasionally with grotesque or fish decoration. Ascenders on the top line may offer a similar treatment. Staging instructions are written in a smaller size of the same script.
All majuscules at the beginning of verses are heightened in red. On f. 1r 5-line foliate initial and four-margins rinceaux border with acanthus leaves in the four corners and in the middle of the outer section. The border is separated from the text by a broad bar in blue, red and gold.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Sprinkled brown leather over cardboard boards, the spine gold-tooled. On the spine a red title-label with the inscription "HISTOIR. DE LA DESTRUC. DE TROY LA GRANDE" and a green (?) one with the inscription "P. PERSONAG SUR VEL. DU 15 SIECLE". Marbled endleaves. Gilt edges. - Provenance
- Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 3658). Purchased from H.P. Kraus in New York on 23 January 1974 with funds from the E.J. Beinecke Trust.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 391 + ii : 270 x 195 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 543 1
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Drama
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscripts - Material
- parchment and paper ;
- Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Milet, Jacques, approximately 1425-1466.
- Subject (Topic)
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French literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Trojan War - Subjects
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Milet, Jacques, approximately 1425-1466
French literature > To 1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Trojan War > Drama
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Jacques Milet, Histoire de la Destruction de Troye la Grant. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 9996041243408651
- Object ID (OID)
- 33406579
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