University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 850

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1694

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 850

Title:

Collection of French poetry

Poetry

Place:

Rouen

Rouen TGN

Date:

before 1560

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 77 leaves : paper ; 199 x 145 (138 x 95) mm bound to 207 x 154 mm

Former Owner(s):

Pichon, Jérôme, baron, 1812-1896

Jérôme Pichon WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
A more detailed description of the contents of Ms. Codex 850 supplied by the staff of bookseller Pierre Berès in 1953 is on file at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 77 + i (modern paper); modern pencil pagination, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in a single column of up to 21 lines; frame-ruled in ink with double verticals.
Decoration: First two poems start with a 2-line initial, one in red and one in blue; thereafter there are spaces and guide letters for initials which were never added. Calendar chart on p. 100.
Binding: 19th-century blind-stamped calf; upper and lower covers detached.
Origin: Written in Rouen in the first half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch); spine date 1523, last date in text 1560 (p. 100, 122).
Formerly owned by the La Porte family, 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold in the collection of Baron Jérôme Pichon at auction at Hôtel Druot, May 1897, catalogue vol. 1, no. 893.
Sold by Pierre Berès, 1953.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, French

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

French poetry

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9935684493503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34t6f32g/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania