Glosses on Sallust; Jean Lebègue. France, 15th century, second half
MS. D'Orville 141
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Glosses on Sallust; Jean Lebègue. France, 15th century, second half
Shelfmark
MS. D'Orville 141
Place of origin
France
Date
15th century, second half
Language
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper, folded in quarto. The watermark closely resembles Briquet 1834 (Paris/Pontoise, 1468).
Physical extent
ii + 55 + i leaves
Hands
Cursive by one hand
Rubrics and lemmata on fols. 1r-41r in textualis.
Decoration
None.
Binding
Plain brown leather over pasteboards; Sallust MS on the spine
Acquisition
Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804. Previous shelfmark Auct. X. 1. 4. 39.
Provenance
The colophon, fol. 41r, covering fol. 1r-40v, is copied from an earlier examplar and gives the date of the original compilation, not the present manuscript.
Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751); listed in the catalogue of his collection, MS. D'Orville 302, fol. 21r.
Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent
Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent
Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/6–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian.
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Title
'Incipiunt Glose supra Catilinarium et (fol. 19) Iugurtinum Salustij feliciter' and (fol. 42) 'Histoires sur les deux liures de Saluste'
Shelfmark
MS. D'Orville 141
Summary
Comprises:
(fol. 1) 'Incipiunt Glose supra Catilinarium et (fol. 19) Iugurtinum Salustij feliciter': beg. 'Salustius vti mos erat.'
(fol. 42) 'Histoires sur les deux liures de Saluste': beg. 'Cy commencent [?] les histoires que len puet raisonnablement faire et pourtraire sur le liure de Saluste par moy J. le Begue deuisees et mises par escript '
The Jugurthine part begins on fol. 46. These are suggestions for a series of pictures ('figures des histoires') illustrating the two books.
Date
written in the 15th cent. in France, by J. le Begue ?
Language
Latin
French
Physical extent
56 Leaves
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Collection contents
Manuscripts of Jacques Philippe D'Orville
'Incipiunt Glose supra Catilinarium et (fol. 19) Iugurtinum Salustij feliciter' and (fol. 42) 'Histoires sur les deux liures de Saluste'
