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| Country of Location: |
Country of Location
Switzerland
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| Location: |
Location Genève |
| Library / Collection: |
Library / Collection
Bibliothèque de Genève
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| Shelfmark: | Shelfmark Ms. fr. 179 |
| Manuscript Title: | Manuscript Title Jean d’Auton, Epistre d’Hector au roy |
| Caption: | Caption Parchment · I + 14 ff. · 25.5 x 17.3 cm · Lyon · around 1511 |
| Language: |
Language
French |
| Manuscript Summary: | Manuscript Summary In 1511, the Benedictine Jean d'Auton (around 1466-1528), chronicler at the court of Louis XII, initiated a contest to write fictional letters to the king. For this contest, he wrote the Epistre d'Hector au roy, which was answered, among others, by Jean Lemaire de Belges with his Epistre du roy Loys à Hector. This Geneva manuscript begins with a full-page illustration, executed by an artist named Maître des Entrées, active in Lyon. It depicts Hector presenting a book to a satyr in front of an army of soldiers in armor, some of whom are crowned with the poets’ laurel wreath. The numerous references to antiquity, textual as well as visual, are typical for the humanist milieu of Lyon, which included the owner of this manuscript, Jean Sala, half-brother of the famous author and antiquities enthusiast Pierre Sala. |
| Standard description: | Standard description Brigitte Roux, e-codices, 2019.Show standard description |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | DOI (Digital Object Identifier 10.5076/e-codices-bge-fr0179 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-bge-fr0179) |
| Permanent link: | Permanent link https://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0179 |
| IIIF Manifest URL: |
IIIF Manifest URL
https://e-codices.unifr.ch/metadata/iiif/bge-fr0179/manifest.json
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| How to quote: | How to quote Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 179: Jean d’Auton, Epistre d’Hector au roy (https://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0179). |
| Online Since: | Online Since 10/10/2019 |
| Rights: | Rights Images:
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| Document Type: |
Document Type
Manuscript |
| Century: |
Century
16th century |
| Decoration: |
Decoration
Figurative, Full Page, Initial, Ornamental |
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