Frere Laurent, Somme le Roi
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Description
- Title
- Frere Laurent, Somme le Roi
- Creator
- Laurent, Frère
- Contributor
- Laurent,--Frère
- Published / Created
- ca. 1470
- Publication Place
- France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of Frère Laurent, Somme le Roi (The Book of Vices and Virtues). Written presumably for Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, who died at Moulins-sur-Allier in 1476.
- Description
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At the beginning of each book there are spaces (9 to 13 lines) left blank for miniatures. 4- to 2-line initials for each book and for a few chapters, gold against blue and red grounds with silver or white filigree, with coarse gold ivy and black hair-spray. 2-line initials in blue or red for chapters; 1-line initials, blue or red, in table of contents. All initials with guide-letters. Chapter numbers and paragraph marks in red. Rubrics throughout.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges red. Brown calf, spine gold-tooled, with a red label: "Miroir du Monde M. S. S. Antiq."
Script: Written by two scribes in batarde script. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-100v, 131r-217v; Scribe 2) ff. 101r-130v, 217v-312r, 313r.
Watermarks: ff. ii-5, Briquet Armoiries 1876; ff. 6-315, similar to Briquet Lettre P 8527. - Extent
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1 fol.
28 cm. - Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 204
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
- Manuscripts
- Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
- Laurent,--Frère
- Subject (Topic)
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Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
French literature--To 1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
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
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Frère Laurent, Somme le Roi. 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 204.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9795910
- Object ID (OID)
- 2013562
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms204.htm