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Les peines d'enfer

Cordiale quattuor novissimorum (French)

F-4hgp

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 948

Elena Iourtaeva, Houghton Library, 2018 (Born Digital)

General Information

Material vellum
Script, Hands

The French text is written in black and red littera bastarda. 
General Remarks

End of the prologue and caption to part 3 (recto) -- 2 lines of text ("Il fault cy declarer premierement et principipallement la nomination des peines") below a large miniature of the torments of hell (verso). 

Original Condition

Page Height 210 mm
Page Width 143 mm
Height of Written Area 135 – 160 mm
Width of Written Area 95 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 25 – 30
Line Height 5 mm
Numbering

f. 117

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

- full-page painting showing Hell

- decorated initial "I"

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language French
    • Title Cordiale quattuor novissimorum
    • Content Description

      End of the prologue and caption to part 3 (recto) -- 2 lines of text ("Il fault cy declarer premierement et principipallement la nomination des peines") below a large miniature of the torments of hell (verso). 

History

Persons and Institutions Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966 [former owner]

Bibliography

  • R. Wieck, Late medieval and renaissance illuminated manuscripts, 132-3., with discussion of the possible artist. Wieck refers to this ms. by a former call number "pfMS Typ 405b". 

  • De Ricci, ii. 1994 no. 7.

  • Bond and Faye, 276. 

  • Plummer, The last flowering, 42 no. 56. 

  • Harvard Libraries, HOLLIS # 010122258 

     http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/010122258/catalog
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