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MS. Douce 331

Summary Catalogue no.: 21905

Contents

Boccaccio, Filostrato

French translation by Louis de Beauvau

Incipit: Cil celluy temps estoit Troye assiegee des Grecz ou il y avoit mains grans et puissans roys, duez, contes et barons, preux et vaillans, hardis et esprouvez en armes.

On fol. 2r has the later title: 'Le Roman de Troÿle, fils du Roy Priam, et comment il l'enamoura de la belle Criseida pendant que les Grecs tenoient Troyes assiegée, là ou l'on verra aussi comment elle changea son amour pour Diomedes de Grece. Translaté en françois par N. Beauveau, Senechal d'Anjou.'

Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 77 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 11.375 × 8.75 in.

Layout

2 cols

Decoration

Imitation of the style of the manuscripts of René d'Anjou. Pächt and Alexander i. 729, Pl. LVII

Good miniatures

Borders

Initials.

Binding

Contemporary red velvet, rebacked

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; France, West

Provenance and Acquisition

Arms on fol. 2v, partly defaced, of a member of the family of Albret d'Orval

A note states that this manuscript was no. 2342 in the Gaignat sale in 1769

Louis César de la Baume-le-Blanc (1708-1780), duc de la Vallière; sale, 1783/17844, no. 3617; cf. Guillaume de Bure, Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. le duc de la Vallière (Paris: Guillaume de Bure, 1783)

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (September 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897) and the Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (1840). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 597
Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, p. 58

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (14 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09-21: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897) and other printed sources