Guillaume de Deguilleville, Pèlerinages; France, c. 1400
MS. Add. C. 29
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Guillaume de Deguilleville, Pèlerinages; France, c. 1400
Shelfmark
MS. Add. C. 29
Place of origin
French
Date
c. 1400
Language
Latin
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii + 188+ ii leaves
Hands
Formal cursive bookhand.
Decoration
Good grisaille miniatures (fols. 6v, 32r, 110r).
Good borders.
Penwork initials in gold, flourished with light blue, and dark blue, flourished with red.
Binding
Quarter leather and marbled pasteboard, 19th century (?)
Acquisition
Bought in 1848 for £12 12s.
Provenance
'Cest a moi Claude Fauchet 1596': Claude Fauchet, 1530-1601, French historian and philologist; not listed in S. W. Bisson, 'Claude Fauchet's Manuscripts', Modern Language Review 30/3 (Jul., 1935), 311-323.
'Ex Libris Biblio. D. D. Caroli de Pradel episcopi Montispessulani': Charles de Pradel, ?1644-1696
Probably purchased with Pradel's library by his successor bishop, Colbert de Croissi, 1667-1738 (cf. Paul Meyer, 'Les manuscrits français de Cambridge', Romania 8/31 (1879), 305-42 at 307-8) and identifiable in the catalogue of his sale, 1740 (Catalogus librorum bibliothecase ... D.D. Caroli-Joachimi Colbert de Croissi, II, 446).
'W. Reader, Coventry, 1808': William Reader, 1782–1852 (on whom see Oxford DNB).
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