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Summary Catalogue no.: 21643

Contents

Flores et Blanchefleur
Rubric: L'Histoire amoureuse de Flores et Blanchefleur, 1.5.5.3

Translated from the Spanish Flores y Blancaflor by Jacques Vincent

Incipit: Au temps que Romme estoit en auctorite

In prose, in 20 chapters

Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 74 + i fols
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 140 mm.

Layout

1 col., 17 lines, 130 × 90 mm.

Hand(s)

Humanistica cursiva (Watson [1984] no. 451)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 854

Good initials

Binding

Morocco with rich gold tooling within and without (late 17th century). (See S. Gibson, Some notable Bodleian Bindings [Oxford, 1901-1904], 10, no. 29 and plate)

History

Origin: 1553 ; France

Provenance and Acquisition

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the following sources:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 451
Pächt and Alexander (1966)
Summary Catalogue (1897)
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (1840), p. 8.
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 511

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08-30: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)