Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305
Published / Created:
[between 1300 and 1350]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 703
Image Count:
45
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (low quality) of 1) Jean de Meun (ca. 1240, d. before 1305), Le Testament. 2) Raoul de Houdenc (ca. 1170-ca. 1230), Le Songe d'Enfer (La Voie d'Enfer), 1-672. At least 6 verses are missing at the end; they were probably written on a leaf now missing after f. 18.
Description:
In French., Script: Copied by one hand in a rather uneven Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria, marked by many fusions., The opening letters of all verses are heightened in red; in art. 1 the first verse of each quatrain except the first one opens with a 1-line plain red initial. Art. 1 opens with a 3-line plain red initial, art. 2 with a 2-line one. All initials are executed over guide-letters., The codex is badly trimmed, causing the loss of letters at the end of verses., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half brown leather over pasteboard, the boards covered with red paper. On the spine a black leather label with the gold-tooled title "CODICILLE / I. DE MEUN" and a green circular paper label with the handwritten shelfmark "301".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305. and Raoul, de Houdenc, approximately 1165-approximately 1230.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, French poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Chronique de Baudouin d'Avesnes or Trésor des histoires, a chronicle of the world in 633 chapters from Creation up to the time of emperor Tiberius, composed at the court of Hainaut between 1278 and 1281
Description:
In French., Script: Copied by one very developed hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Formata (Bastarda)., Decoration: Red headings and yellow heightening of the majuscules; flourished initials, with penwork, e.g., a 7-line blue foliate initial decorated with green stems, prickly leaves and a small flower, and a (rubbed) coat of arms in a wreath of golden leaves; and at the top, a column-wide picture (attributed to the Egerton Master) representing God leading Adam and Eve into the walled Paradise and pointing to the Tree of Wisdom., and Binding: 14th century red morocco de luxe over cardboard, with gilt edges, and gold-tooled, namely on the front board, with the coat of arms of the Duke of Newcastle in an oval, crowned medallion; and a blind-tooled spine with six raised bands and inscriptions.
