Incipit h[ic] series d[e]sc[ri]pta parabola[rum]. Floscul[us] ex prato de[m]pta[rum] legitur ut flos. Plurimis ex liberis titulati[m] et ordine sc[ri]ptis. ...
Saint Augustine, (354-430 AD) Bishop of Hippo
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
circa 1450 - circa 1501
Materials
Measurements
211 x 155 x 39 mm
Place of origin
Tours
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3130714
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: Fine calf vellum with contemporary patches on ff.10, 11, and 39 Ink/Pigment: Text written in brown ink with red and blue paragraph marks. Large gilded and painted initial on F1r with floral border with gilded leaves. Small gilded and painted initial on F85r Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: 18th-century possibly retaining earlier sewing Binder's Name: NKEnd Leaves: Separate plain paper pastedowns over stubs formed from the outermost leaf of each of the first and last gatherings Structure: English Edges: Plain cut and gilded with a single large gothic letter in brown ink on each edge: Head: R; Fe: D; Tail: G (viewed with the book lying on its left board) Spine Lining: moderate round with parchment comb linings End Bands: 18th--century worked L to R 1x1 in beige and white silk over rolled paper coreBookmark: NoneBoards: Paper boards, perpendicular lacing (where visible)Covering: Brown tanned calf, polishedTooling: Title label of red-brown goat in panel 2. No other tooling Furniture: None Enclosure: NoneBinding Notes: The comb linings, sewing thread, the shape of the supports suggest an early structure, but the broken head and tail edges suggest resewing after the original edge decoration. Perhaps a sixteenth-century resewing re-covered in the eighteenth?
Bibliographic description
[i, 193] leaves, bound ; 22 cm. Running number: 6849. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742), of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript inscription on leaf [i]v facing title page: "Flores Parabolarum" [i.e. title note and catalogue entry written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]. Sixteenth-century illuminated coat of arms of the Fumée family of Tours at foot of leaf 126r. Sixteenth-century inscriptions: [1] "A[... erased] lucas fumee. chanoine de to[u]rs. prieur de Sainct martin lez bourges" (leaf 189r); [2] "A maistre charles Bonin Procureur du Roy au grand conseil. Conscia mens ut cuiq[ue] sua est ita concipit intra Pectora pro facto spe[m]q[ue] metu[m]q[ue] suo. Charles" (leaf 189r); [3] "Ludouicus fumee Iunior. Ex d[o]m[in]o [?] Tho. Ruze" (leaf 193r); and [4] "die sabbati vna me[n]sis Ianuarii xi a hora post meridieni natus est Ludouicus fumee ..." (leaf 193r). The Fumée and Ruze were important families of Tours. Adam Fumée (born in Tours 1430 and died in Lyon 1494), physician to Charles VII, Louis XI and Charles VIII, Keeper of the Seals of France, lord of Genillé and Roches-Saint-Quentin, married secondly in 1482 Thomine Ruzé, daughter of Jean Ruzé, lord of Beaulieu; he had a splendid library which was sold after his death to the bookseller Camusat. His son from his first marriage Adam II Fumée (d. 1536) married in 1494 Catherine Burdelot, daughter of Jean Burdelot and Thomine Ruzé (his step-mother). Adam II's sister Jeanne Fumée (d. 1522) married in 1493 Pierre Bonin (d. ca. 1496), lord of Courpoy, Nouriou, Urtebize and Féroles; their son was Charles Bonin de Courpoy, who succeeded his father as Procureur-Général du Roi au Grand-Conseil. Adam I Fumée's son from his second marriage was Jean Fumée (d. 1531), canon of Saint-Martin of Tours ("chanoine de Saint-Martin de Tours"). Further late fifteenth- or sixteenth-century inscriptions on leaf 169v. Seventeenth-century[?] inscription on rear pastedown: "B. Schroder kost 19 mark 14 ss". Manuscript price[?] on leaf [i]r: "2-2-". Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; sewn onto four cords; four raised bands; remnants of brown goatskin title label on spine; fifteenth- or sixteenth-century manuscript shelfmark[?] letter on each edge of bookblock: "B" (head), "D" (fore-edge) and "G" (tail).
Makers and roles
Saint Augustine, (354-430 AD) Bishop of Hippo , author Pope Innocent III (Lotario di Segni) (1160/1-1216), author Saint Isidore of Seville, Archbishop of Seville (c.560-636), author