Jacques Milet — 1461; French, Paris
MS. Douce 356
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Jacques Milet — 1461; French, Paris
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 356
Date
1461
Language
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
354 fols.
Hands
Written by Jehan de Fleury.
Decoration
Good coloured drawings.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Provenance
Francis Douce, 1757–1834
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Title
The Destruction of Troy
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 356
Summary
'... Listoire de Troye et la destrucion translatee de latin en francoys, mise par personnages, composee par maistre Jaques Milet estudiant en loys en la ville dorleans, commencee lan mil. cccc. cinquante le second jour du mois de Septambre ...': with a prologue, of which one leaf containing the first 'six stanzas' is lost: all in verse: at beg. 'O deesses et dieux.' At end 'Cy fine listoire ... escripte par la main de Jehan Fleury et achevee le cinquieme de Decembre vigille sainct Nicolas mil cccc soixante & vng', with a monogram and 'A grant paine.' At fol. 352v 'Cy commence toute la substance de listoire de Troye par ryme selond Daire & Dithis': beg. 'Iason & Hercules vers Colcos sen aloient': at end a Latin colophon 'per me Johannem Floridum in artibus magistrum Parisius comorantem ... ' Dec. 5. 1461.
Date
written in A.D. 1461 at Paris by J. Fleury
Language
French
Physical facet
On paper, with some miniatures slightly coloured, as far as fol. 63
Physical extent
355 leaves, in double columns
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Collection contents
The Destruction of Troy
