Saints' Lives : Franciscan : in French

Item Information

Title:
Saints' Lives : Franciscan : in French
Former owner:
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Former owner:
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Former owner:
Sabatier, Paul, 1858-1928
Former owner:
Maggs Bros.
Former owner:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Former owner:
John R. Anderson & Co.
Date:
[1450–1475]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Medieval--France
Manuscripts, French--France
Stained calf bindings
Bookplates
Gothic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Subjects:
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226--Early works to 1800
Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253--Early works to 1800
Peter Martyr, Saint, approximately 1205-1252--Early works to 1800
Franciscans--Early works to 1800
Saints--Early works to 1800
Places:
France > Grand Est (region) > Troyes
Extent:
188 leaves : paper ; 268 x 197 (177 x 123) mm bound to 28 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7653g7551
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Troyes?]
Language:
French
Table of Contents:
1. fol.1-162: [Speculum perfectionis, French trans.] Ci commancent les cronicques dung tresexcellent et glorieux confesseur et amy de dieu monseigneur saint francoys/ En saint non de dieu tout puissant nostre createur.../ Le glorieux francois pour escripre la regle.../...que frere ruffin ne le regardast dilligentement./ Explicit/ Jhesus maris Franciscus clara.
2. fol. 162v: blank.
3. fol. 163-167: [Life of St. Francis] Cy commence la vie sainct francois confesseur/ En une cite qui siet en poulenne olt ung homme appelle francois.../...ils estoient garis de quelque maladie quils eussent.
4. fol. 167-169v: [Life of St. Peter Martyr] La vie sainct pierre le martir/ Sainct pierre novel martir de lordre des prescheurs.../...et par les miracles saincte pierre tant apres sa mort que devant.
5. fol. 169v-188v: [Life of St. Clare] Ci commence la vie saincte clare/ Une saincte fut en la cite dassise qui ot nom clare.../...les bonnes gens qui la estoient quils louassent dieu.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in the Champagne region of France, possibly Troyes (as evidenced by the paper stock) in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 610) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 530 (lot number written inside front cover, catalogue description pasted to fol. i), to Maggs. Bought in London by J. R. Anderson, who offered it to Franciscan scholar Paul Sabatier on 6 May 1902 (correspondence between Anderson and Sabatier formerly laid-in, now lost). Because of this connection, the manuscript has been called in Franciscan publications "The Anderson-Sabatier Manuscript."
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold to Boston Public Library in 1928 by the widow of Paul Sabatier.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1, 925
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: Nous qui avons este...
Collation: Paper, with watermark of the arms of Troyes ("Bande chargée de deux cotices potencées et contre potencées"), nearly identical to Briquet 1045 (see I:79), paperstock associated with Troyes and the Champagne region of France, fol. ii (later paper) + 188 + i (later paper) ; 1-19⁸ 20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22-24⁶ ; quires signed in early modern pencil, probably by most recent binder, lower right corner of first recto of each quire, signed a-z (quire 23 unsigned, skips [j], [u] and [w]). Vertical catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: One column, 31 lines. Bounding and rulings lines in red plummet.
Script: Written in a bâtarde script in brown ink with brown rubrics.
Decoration: 2-line red epigraphic capitals throughout, spaces left unfilled on fol. 175 and following. Each initial or initial-space is sequentially numbered in modern pencil, 1-325.
Binding: 18th-century "cat's paw" calf over pasteboard, paper pastedowns and endleaves (two in front, one in back, armorial watermark), red edges, spine gilt-stamped in compartments with red leather label, "CRONIQ/ DE ST/ FRANCO." Sabatier describes a green Barrois-Ashburnham label on spine reading "610," now lost.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "A Library about St. Francis," More Books VI (1931): 273-286; Paul Sabatier, "Description du Manuscrit Anderson-Sabatier," Neerlandia Franciscana III (1920): 27-53.
Notes (language):
In French.
Identifier:
06_01_020120
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.41
MS Fr.96.Sp3 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999063893174