Evans, Robert Harding (1778-1857)
This manuscript is a hagiographic compilation in French prose which recounts the lives of the apostles, martyrs, confessors and saints. Some of the accounts are attributed to Wauchier de Denain. The manuscript is dated to the first quarter of the 14th century; it was decorated by the Papeleu Master and the illuminator Mahiet and notably contains more than eighty historiated initials.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
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In the middle of the 12th century the Latin works of Statius and Virgil as well as adaptations of Homer were translated into the vernacular. At the same time these Latin texts were being brought into the “romance” language (French), the first examples of the French poetic form called the “Roman” or Romance were being written. CB 18, a parchment manuscript, contains two such works, the Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure and the anonymously authored Roman de Thèbes.
Online Since: 03/25/2009
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- Benoît, de Sainte-More (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Evans, Robert Harding (Seller) | Heber, Richard (Former possessor) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) Found in: Standard description
This generously illuminated manuscript in two volumes was made at the beginning of the 15th century and contains Guiron le Courtois, a romance about the fathers of the knights of the round table written around the year 1235. The various tales are presented here in an order unique to the to the CB 96 manuscript.
Online Since: 03/25/2009
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Evans, Robert Harding (Seller) | Galfredus, Monumetensis (Author) | Heber, Richard (Former possessor) | La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de (Former possessor) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This generously illuminated manuscript in two volumes was made at the beginning of the 15th century and contains Guiron le Courtois, a romance about the fathers of the knights of the round table written around the year 1235. The various tales are presented here in an order unique to the CB 96 manuscript.
Online Since: 03/25/2009
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Evans, Robert Harding (Seller) | Heber, Richard (Former possessor) | La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de (Former possessor) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
"De Balneis Puteolanis", a didactic poem by the Salerno physician Petrus de Ebulo, describes the health benefits of about thirty healing springs found in the region around Pozzuoli and Baia, Italy. This work was widely disseminated in Latin as well as in Italian and French translations. It describes baths that were destroyed by an earthquake in 1538. The manuscript is decorated with full-page illustrations and was probably produced in the artistic circle of Robert d'Anjou.
Online Since: 07/31/2007
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | De Marinis, Tammaro (Former possessor) | Dunn, George (Former possessor) | Evans, Robert Harding (Seller) | Olschki, Leo S. (Former possessor) | Petrus, de Ebulo (Author) Found in: Standard description
Tristan, written by Pierre Sala of Lyon in the years 1520-1528, derives from the medieval Italian tradition of the Tristan and Lancelot story cycles in prose about the knights of the round table. Stories about the idealized friendship between Tristan and Lancelot shift between the adventures of the knights of the round table and their romantic intrigues. A mere two manuscripts transmit this Renaissance work by Pierre Salas. The codex held by Fondation Bodmer is the dedication copy made for King Francis I of France. It is illustrated with twenty-six pen and aquarelle drawings.
Online Since: 04/26/2007
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The Theban and Trojan sagas held an important place in the literature of the middle ages. The contents of manuscript CB 160, written in 1469 on paper by Jacotin de Lespluc (« escript par la main de Jacotin de Lespluc »), form part of this tradition. This codex contains a prose version of the "Historia trojana" by Guido delle Colonne and a history of Thebes that closely follows the "Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César". The ink wash drawings are very similar to those found in Ms. 9650-52 of the Königliche Bibliothek of Belgium.
Online Since: 03/25/2009
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Evans, Robert Harding (Seller) | Gaignat, Louis Jean (Former possessor) | Guido, de Columnis (Author) | Henry Yates Thompson (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de (Former possessor) | Murray, Charles Fairfax (Former possessor) | Perrins, Charles William Dyson (Former possessor) | Utterson, Edward Vernon (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Evans, Robert Harding (Seller) | Gaignat, Louis Jean (Former possessor) | Guido, de Columnis (Author) | Henry Yates Thompson (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de (Former possessor) | Murray, Charles Fairfax (Former possessor) | Perrins, Charles William Dyson (Former possessor) | Utterson, Edward Vernon (Former possessor) Found in: Additional description
The manuscript held by the Fondation Martin Bodmer contains the only exemplar of the long Anglo-Norman roman lignager (family history tale) Waldef. This text, originally written at the beginning of the 13th century, consists of some 22,300 octosyllabic couplets celebrating the lives of its hero and his sons; after a long preamble going back to the Roman occupation of England, the tale recounts love and separation, travels and battles using conventional imagery. This manuscript was copied near the end of the 13th century or the beginning of the 14th century and is decorated with pen drawings in the margins; it also contains a second roman lignager, Gui de Warewic and a chanson de geste, Otinel.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
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The 13 large illustrations in this French manuscript, written in the 15th century, were produced by one of the most important book decorators of the late middle ages : Jean Fouquet (BnF, ms. fr. 247). They are richly decorated with gold and cover two thirds of a page; a large number of initials adorned with flowers round out the illustrator's iconographic program. The first page, which is missing, also certainly held a decorative illustration (Adam and Eve?). At the beginning of a prolog is a small miniature portraying the author writing the book. The Antiquitates iudaicae recounts the history of the Jewish nation from Genesis to the year 66 according to the modern western calendar.
Online Since: 03/22/2012
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Evans, Robert Harding (Seller) | Foucault, Nicolas-Joseph (Former possessor) | Josephus, Flavius (Author) Found in: Standard description