Simon de Hesdin and Nicholas de Gonesse produced this translation of Valerius Maximus for Charles V, between 1375 and 1401; the present leaf is therefore a relatively early copy, having been completed approximately 25 years later.
Ms. Leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from Raphael Stora in 1940.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 210
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a bâtarde script in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 2 columns (85 mm each), 41 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind.
Decoration: Four-line "puzzle" initial on recto in blue and white with foliate and gold infill on pale salmon with bar border with black tendrils and gold trefoil leaves along outer margin. 15-line miniature on recto in shades of blue, green and grey with gold sky, illustrating Romulus and Remus suckled by a wolf on the banks of a stream, with a shepherd in the background before a walled city.
Binding: Housed in an oversized folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Schullian, Dorothy M. "A Revised List of Manuscripts of Valerius Maximus" in Miscellanea Augusto Campana. Medioevo e Umanesimo 45 (1981), pp. 695-728, at p. 699.
