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Le temple de Bocace
Title
Le temple de Bocace.
Created
Central France (probably Tours), 1500.
Physical Description
1 volume (iv + 54 + iv leaves) : parchment ; 252 mm x 175 mm
Language
French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Notes
Layout: single columns of 23 lines.
Script: bâtarde.
Decoration: 5 large miniatrures. 3-line initials alternately gold on blue backgrounds and white on gold backgrounds; 1-line initials on alternating blue and burgundy backgrounds. Line fillers.
Binding: 19th- or early 20th-century blind-stamped morocco, gilt-tooled inside front and back boards. Signed: David. Two original vellum endleaves and two modern paper endleaves at beginning and end of volume.
Secundo folio: Une dame.
Text begins on verso facing fol. 1r, and facing pages are numbered together.
Bookseller description available.
In Middle French.
Provenance
Previously owned by La Rochefoucauld family, c. 1500-1879, including Anne de Polignac, comtesse de La Rochefoucauld; library of Château de Verteuil, 1728 catalog, item 768; and by descent Louis-François-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot. Rohan-Chabot sale, Labitte, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1879 March 18, lot 21. Ex libris Pemberton family, Newton Hall, Cambridge, c. 1910. By marriage to Theodore Seligman, his initials "T.S." to Newton Hall armorial bookplate. Theodore Seligman sale, Sotheby's, 1951 April 30, lot 186. Previously owned by Martin Bodmer. Bodmer library sale by H.P. Kraus, his catalog no. 126, Choice Books and Manuscripts from a Distinguished Private Library, 1971, item no. 12. Purchased from H.P. Kraus by B.H. Breslauer, 1973. Previously owned by Hamill & Barker. Previously jointly owned by Hamill & Barker and Bruce P. Ferrini. Ferrini catalog 1, Important Western Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts & Illuminated Leaves, 1987, no. 114. Sold to French private collection via Librairie Lardanchet, Paris. Purchased by Sokol Books at Fraysse auction house, Paris sale, 2015 November 18, lot 24. Purchased from Sokol Books on Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund and Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2022.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Georges Chastellain was a chronicler and poet at the court of Phillip the Good of the Duke of Burgundy.
Summary
Illuminated manuscript on parchment of Le Temple de Bocace by Georges Chastellain. Completed originally in 1465, the Temple de Bocace is a continuation of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum. In it, Chastellain dreams of a procession of the ghosts of famous men, recently deceased in tragic circumstances, arriving at the temple to claim their places there. Margaret of Anjou relates her own misfortunes, but Boccaccio, resuscitated for the occasion, tells her she cannot remain, arguing that wherever there is "vie en corps sain et entier," whatever cause for grief there may be, there must never be despair.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 13, 2022
References
Georges Chastellain, Le Temple de Bocace. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Georges Chastellain, Le Temple de Bocace. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Illuminated manuscripts.
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 16th century.
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