Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
10-14 June 1901
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/85
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    32/500 page 26
    Lot 67—continued. French translation is in small cursive lettres baitardes, in double columns of 31 lines, and has 10 fine alluminated ornamental initials, 8 of which have marginal decorations ; rubrications and numerous ornamental pen letters in the text. Spaces are left blank for miniatures. In 1 vol. new calf. 68. Borruius. ANtctI MANLII BOECIS DE CONSOLATIONE LIBRI V. CUM EX- POSITIONE DOMINI (ROBERTI GROSSETESTE EPISCOPI) LINCONIENSIS. —BOECE DE CONSOLATION TRANSLATE DE LATIN EN FRANCOIS AVEC LA GLOSE DE TRAVET (NICOLAUS TRIVETH) PAR MAISTRE JEHAN DE MEUN. (CXIII) folio *.* MS. OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, ON VELLUM, ff. 103, finely written in small gothic and lettres batardes, in three and four columns, WITH SIX LARGE ILLUMINATIONS, AND ILLUMINATED BORDERS AND INITIALS. Old calf. The arms of De Refuge occur in the illuminations ; the volume was afterwards in the Bibliotheca Tristaniana and subse- quently in the Cabinet de livres du Comte Pontchartrain. See a description of this MS. in Cochran’s Catalogue of MSS. compiled by John Holmes, Esq., late Assistant Keeper of the Department of MSS. in the British Museum, No. 324. The comment or exposition of Grosseteste is unpublished. A MAGNIFCENTLY ILLUMINATED MANU- SCRIPT. The six miniatures in this volume consist of scenes in the life of Boethius, with groups of male and female figures clothed in French and Italian costumes of the period, with backgrounds of castles, landscapes, gothic interiors, &c., one in two sections of Boethius in prison and Fortune turning her wheel. These are sur- rounded by exquisitely painted and illuminated scroll borders of flowers and fruit ; 18 very fine large illuminated ornamental initials, 260 smaller ones with short marginal decorations, and numerous other illuminated details and ornamental pen letters. [See PLATE]. A note by 8S. W. Singer in flyleat suggests that it may have been executed for Philippe IV of France. 69. BorTHiIus. BOECE DE CONSOLATION MIS EN ROUMAIN PAR FRERE RENAUT DE LOUENS. (CCCXC) folio Prologue begins: Fortune mere de tristreche De dolour et dafiliction Mettre ma fait & ma jouece Men estudie et mentention A faire ] roumain sur boece Con dist de consolation Qui donne confort et liece Ceulx qui ont tribulation.
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