Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César
Unknown
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1250 - 1275
Materials
Measurements
341 x 266 x 85 mm
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3130729
Summary
Full description
Orientation: VerticalText Substrate: calf vellum Ink/Pigment: black manuscript ink with heading in red ink. Large historiated and gilded initial on F1r, and column-width historiated and gilded miniatures on ff.4v and24v. All other initials are decorated with penwork in red and blueType: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supportsDate of Binding: ca 1700 Binder's Name: French End Leaves: Sewn single fold of Dutch marbled paper with 2 leaves of plain white laid paper (first at front removed) with outside hooks around it. Stubs and outer marbled leaf as pastedowns. Marbled pastedowns are pieced. Structure: EnglishEdges: All edges gilt over a marbled fore edge. Spine Lining: Moderate round and parchment comb li nings End Bands: Worked L to R 2x2 in brown and cream silk over rolled paper cores with thin crowning cores. Cut at jointsBookmark: Green silk ribbon fastened top spine under the headband Boards: Laminated paper boards Covering: Tan-coloured tanned calf, tied up under the endbands Tooling Spine: gold tooled trip fillet frame to each panel with small rosette tool in corners; title label of brown tanned goat in panel 2Tooling Sides: Blind-tooled triple fillet border; blind tooled roll on board edge; same roll tooled in gold on turn-ins. Furniture: None Enclosure: NoneBinding Notes:
Bibliographic description
[ii, 190, iii] leaves : ill. ; 35 cm. (fol.) Running number: 6931. First and last leaf are worn; some small holes in leaves (e.g. ff. 23, 26, 31, 43, 51, 54, 75, 92, 94, 139, 142, 157, 187) and stitches (ff. 27, 150); staining on many leaves; ff. 7v-8r affected by humidity; last two leaves (ff. 189-190) damaged by spilt fluid. Manuscript marginal annotations in French, fifteenth-century (e.g. ff. 5v, 6r, 60r); some crosses in margin (e.g. ff. 90r, 101r, 124r, 150r, 155r, 157v, 170v). Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript inscription on leaf ii recto: "Histoire, ou Chronique generale du monde, jusqu'au tems de Pompée le Grand" [i.e. title note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]. Manuscript code on leaf i verso: "d:y:z". Inscription at head of f. 1r, seventeenth-century[?], illegible. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf (rubbed and scratched) over pasteboards; sewn on six supports; double and single blind fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges and on turn-ins; gilt fillet panels on spine, otherwise plain; brown leather label with gilt title 'Histoires de la creat du monde'. Gilt edges. Comb and swirl marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Unknown, scribe