Le livre de vices et de vertus.

Format:

Manuscript

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Laurent, d'Orléans, active 1279

Contributor:

British Library.

Series:

Modern Language Association of America. Rotographs of manuscripts and rare printed books.

Standardized Title:

Somme des vices et vertus

Language:

French, Old (ca. 842-1300)

Subjects (All):

Ten commandments--Early works to 1800.

Ten commandments.

Vices--Early works to 1800.

Vices.

Virtues--Early works to 1800.

Virtues.

Conduct of life--Early works to 1900.

Conduct of life.

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, French--14th century.

Genre:

Codices.

Glossed Bibles.

Treatises.

Penn Provenance:

Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1404' (British Library).

Physical Description:

227 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 312 x 219 mm

Place of Publication:

[France], [between 1350 and 1399]

Language Note:

Old French.

Summary:

Late 14th-century illuminated copy of Frère Laurent's Somme des vices et vertus, including treatises on the Ten Commandments, articles of faith, vices, and virtues. Followed by glossed Gospels in French (ordinary version of the 13th century) and the sorrows of Mary at the cross.

Contents:

1. ff.1r-107v: Le livre de vices et de vertus / Frère Laurent.

2. ff.108r-223r: Les evangiles.

3. f.223v: Les regrais a la beneoite vierge Marie quant ele vit son tres chier fil en la crois.

Notes:

Title from colophon.

Collation: Gatherings of 8 leaves with catchwords.

Layout: Written in double columns of 38 lines.

Script: Written in a Gothic hand.

Decoration: 24 miniatures and illuminated initials with border-prolongations; other initials flourished in red and blue or gold, violet, red, and blue.

Origin: Written in France in the late 14th century (British Library).

Microfilm. Washington, DC : Library of Congress, Photoduplication Dept. [for the Modern Language Association?, s.d.] 1 microfilm reel : pos. ; 35 mm. M.L.A. rotograph no. 306.

Contains:

Bible. Gospels. French

Les regrais a la beneoite vierge Marie.