Lestorement du monde [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Pease, John William, 1820-1900, former owner.

Wardington, Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, Lord, 1924-2005, former owner.

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Subjects (All):

World history--Early works to 1800.

World history.

Genre:

Annals and chronicles.

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Originally owned by Yves du Fou, knight, counsellor and chamberlain to Louis XI, Grand Veneur de France (1472), Governor of the Dauphiné (1457), landowner in Brittany and Poitou (Sotheby's).

Formerly owned by Alexander Douglas, tenth duke of Hamilton (HB monogram described in catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale).

Consigned by descendants of Douglas as part of the Hamilton Palace collection of manuscripts to Sotheby's for sale at auction in 1882, lot 243.

Sold as part of the Hamilton Palace collection of manuscripts, purchased en bloc by the Prussian government prior to the scheduled sale in 1882.

Sold by the Prussian government with 60 other Hamilton manuscripts to antiquarian bookseller and publisher Karl J. Trübner, Strasbourg, after 1883.

Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of this group of Hamilton manuscripts from Berlin to London booksellers and publishers Robson & Kerslake, 23 May 1889, lot 47.

Formerly owned by John William Pease (1820-1900, Wardington, Oxfordshire) and by descent by his grandson, Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, second Lord Wardington (gilt booklabel inside lower cover described in catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale).

Gift of Lord Wardington to the bookseller Charles W. Traylen (Guildford, Surrey) in exchange for an atlas, circa 1980.

Sold by Charles W. Traylen to the bookseller Heribert Tenschert (then in Rotthalmünster, Germany; later in Ramsen, Switzerland).

Appears in Heribert Tenschert's Catena Aurea (catalog 16, 1984), no. 10 with plate on back cover.

Sold at auction at Sotheby's to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 26 November 1985, lot 107.

Sold by Lawrence J. Schoenberg at auction at Sotheby's to an unknown purchaser, 6 July 2006, lot ?

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 leaves) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

[Poitou?, France], [147-?]

Language Note:

Middle French.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet.

Summary:

Digital facsimile of a 15th-century illuminated copy of a 13th-century universal history from Creation through the life of Julius Caesar, including episodes from Biblical, mythologoical, and classical history. The text, dedicated to Rogier, châtelain of Lille, is a compilation derived from the work of multiple historians, including Eutropius, Orosius, Livy, Lucan, and Suetonius. Images of front cover, front flyleaves, outside back cover, and spine are not included. The location of the manuscript after its sale in 2006 is unknown.

Notes:

Title from rubric (f. 1r, viewed 18 December 2020).

Collation: Parchment, 351 leaves; 1-10⁸ 11⁸⁻¹(-6) 12-15⁸ 16⁸⁻²(-1 and another leaf lacking) 17-22⁸ 23⁸⁻¹(-4) 24-32⁸ 33⁸⁻¹(-6) 34-44⁸ 45⁸⁻⁴ (-5, 6-8 lacking or cancelled);contemporary foliation in roman numerals in red ink (1-95), later (17th-century?) foliation in roman numerals in black ink (96-351), upper center, 1-26, 26, 28-44, [45], 46-85, [87], 88-226, 228-291, 291-344, 344-351. Horizontal catchwords, lower right last verso.

Layout: Written in two columns of 37 lines; ruled in faint ink.

Script: Written in lettre bâtarde.

Decoration: Miniatures attributable to the workshop of the Master of Jeanne de Laval, possibly in Poitou (catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale); opening leaf with 9-line initial, 18-line column miniature of the creation of Adam, and full floral and acanthus border with 2 coats of arms (f. 1r); 2 extra-wide column miniatures in color and liquid gold (Alexander and a two-headed monster, 19 lines high,1 column wide plus the space between columns, f. 239v; Pompey entering Rome in triumph, 9 lines high, 1 column wide plus the space between columns and space in the lower and outer margins, 346v); 48 column miniatures in color and liquid gold, from 11 lines to 23 lines high;11 6-line or 7-line illuminated initials and 1 4-line initial (f. 299v) in floral designs in red, blue, and orange with white tracery on burnished gold grounds; 2-line or 3-line initial at the start of each chapter in burnished gold on red and blue grounds with white tracery; paragraph marks alternating between blue and burnished gold throughout; rubrication in red throughout.

Binding: Late 18th-century French morocco, gilt, orange silk pastedowsn and endleaves, gilt edges (catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale; not included in digital facsimile).

Origin: Written in France, probably in Poitou and probably in the 1470s (catalog for Sotheby's 2006 sale).

Dimensions of original manuscript: 324 x 224 (212 x 153) mm.

Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2001?

Cited in:

Described in W. von Seidlitz, Die illustrierten Handschriften der Hamilton-Sammlung, in Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, VII, 1883, p. 299.

Listed in exhibition handlist, Bibliotheca Schoenbergiensis, An Exhibition from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg, University of Pennsylvania, 1995-1996, no. 16.

Listed in exhibition catalog, Bibliotheca Schoenbergiensis, An Exhibition from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, 1996, no. 16, fig. 4.

Described in loan exhibition catalog, Illuminated Manuscripts, Blumka Gallery, New York, 1999, p. 84-87 (no. 21).

Listed in exhibition handlist, Specula: Mirrors of Man and Nature, Manuscripts from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg, University of Pennsylvania, 2001, no. 9.

Cited as:

LJS 17.