MS. Rawl. D. 410

Summary Catalogue no.: 13179

Johannes Tinctor, Sermo contra sectam Vaudensium

ed. Emile Van Balberghe et Frédéric Duval, Jean Tinctor (+ 1469), Invectives contre la secte de vauderie, Tournai-Louvain La Neuve, Archives du Chapitre cathédral et Univ Cathol de Louvain, 1999 [not seen]

tr. The Arras Witch Treatises : Johannes Tinctor’s Invectives Contre La Secte de Vauderie and the Recollectio Casus, Status et Condicionis Valdensium Ydolatrarum by the Anonymous of Arras (1460), ed. and tr. Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins and François V. Pageau (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016)

Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 59 leaves; quarto

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 379, pl. XXX

Fine miniature, fol. 1r: witches' sabbath, with man and women paying homage to the devil in the form of a goat. Couples dancing in the background and witches flying on brooms. (See further Franck Mercier, 'Un trompe-l'œil maléfique : l'image du sabbat dans les manuscrits enluminés de la cour de Bourgogne (à propos du Traité du crisme de Vauderie de Jean Taincture, vers 1460-1470)', Médiévales, 44 (2003); URL : http://journals.openedition.org/medievales/931 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/medievales.931)

Fine initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; Flemish

Provenance and Acquisition

Somers-Jekyll sale (Enright, 'Rawlinson', appendix B).

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from the Quarto Catalogue with additional reference to published literature as cited (W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ...viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum...complectens, Quarto Catalogues V, 5 fascicles, 1862–1900). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 1, col. 298

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 1, col. 299

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 232