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Treatise on modesty in women
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Title
Treatise on modesty in women.
Created
France, [between 1600 and 1650]
Physical Description
ff. ii + 28 + ii : parchment ; 140 x 110 mm.
Language
French
Notes
Script: Written by one hand, writing pseudo-Gothic handwriting in a fancy spelling.
Rich decoration in bright colours: initials and borders poorly imitating various late medieval styles of illumination. Historiated initial containing a woman (f. 1r), and marginal pictures: a dragon devouring a naked woman (f. 13v), grotesques (f. 21v), a woman standing on a grotesque head (f. 27v). All pictures are of a crude execution.
Binding: Seventeenth century. Gold-tooled brown calf over bevelled boards, with a frame of small metal nails on each cover and two engraved metal clasps (one missing) attached to the rear cover. Gold-tooled spine with four raised bands. Gilt edges.
In French.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.
Provenance
Gift of Thomas E. Marston, November 1974.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of Michel Vanier, Treatise on Modesty in Women. At least the first of the ownership inscriptions as well as the entire text are a forgery, written in a language purported to date from the fourteenth century (6 April 1373 is the date given in the title, the Latin of which is as clumsy as the French of the text). The author, purported to be a Roman Cistercian, is unrecorded and the sincerity of his moral purpose is dubious.
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Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 03, 2010
References
Michel Vanier, Treatise on Modesty in Women. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Michel Vanier, Treatise on Modesty in Women. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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