Current Location: In storage
Titles
Le Livre des faits darmes et de chevalerie
Maker(s)
Author:
Pisan, Christine de
Printer:
Vérard, Antoine
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Description
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Paper (watermark Briquet no. 8658), ii modern paper flyleaves + 108 fols. + ii modern paper flyleaves, 289 x 209 (183 x 115) mm, 32 – 34 long lines, ruled in plummet, catchwords.
BINDING: nineteenth century, quarter blue morocco with blue marbled paper over pasteboards, pink silk bookmark
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 86v Christine de Pisan, Le livre des faits darmes et de chevalerie, Bks 1 – 3, with capitula.
DECORATION: Half-page pen drawings in black ink: fol. 3r Bk 1, Christine de Pisan at her desk within interior, outside Christine de Pisan and Minerva watching armour-makers in foreground, troop of cavalry in background; fol. 37r Bk 2, Embassy of Scipio Africanus to Syphax’s camp in search of a lost horse; fol. 66v Bk 3, Christine de Pisan’s dream in which Honoré Bonnor (‘un pesant ancien sage auctorise juge’) appears to her.
ORNAMENTATION: Red penwork initials [6 ll.] for books; red penwork initials [2 – 4 ll.] for chapters; capitals highlighted in red.
Notes
History note: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois (1784 – 1855); Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797 – 1878), Barrois collection, no. 378; Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840 – 1913); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10 – 14 June 1901, lot 115; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849 – 1919); his gift, 1904.
