|
Personal Author:
|
Bruyant, Jean, 14th cent.
|
|
Uniform Title:
|
Voie de povreté ou de richesse (Ms. Free Library of Philadelphia. Widener 1)
|
|
Title:
|
Le livre du chastel de labour.
|
|
Publication Information:
|
[Paris, c. 1430].
|
|
Physical Description:
|
78 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 210 x 145 mm.
|
|
General Note:
|
Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern parchment) + 73 + vi (iv, contemporary parchment; i, paper; i, detached leaf of contemporary parchment)
Layout: Written in 1 column of 26 lines, ruled in red ink; textblock: 113 x 72 mm.
Script: Written in bâtarde (hybrida)
Decoration: The illumination work has been attributed to the Fastolf Master, or the workshop of the Bedford Master. 46 half-page miniatures with full foliate borders of the rinceaux type; 1 historiated roundel in margin (f. 1r) and marginal scenes in border of f. 61v; decorated 2-line initials throughout; heraldic devices and the motto "Nulle que vous" appearing in margins throughout manuscript.
Shelfmark: Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, MS Widener 1.
Ex libris of Joseph Widener; "Inv. no. 1074" inscribed on detached leaf inserted at end of book.
This content of this poem is heavily influenced by the Old French allegory, the Roman de la Rose.
|
Contents:
|
Fol. 1r-74v: "[rubr.] Ci co[m]mence le livre du chastel de labour de povrete et de richesse et co[m]me besoing necessite souffrete et disete vienn[ient] assaillir un homs nouvel marie soy gisant en son lit. [text] On dit souvent a reprochier / un proverbe que iay moult . . . Que veoiz me puisse ou demaine."
|
|
Subject Term:
|
Allegory Early works to 1800.
Personification in literature Early works to 1800.
Personification in art Early works to 1800.
Vices Early works to 1800.
Virtues Early works to 1800.
Work Early works to 1800.
Labor Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Latin Medieval and modern Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic France.
|
Added Author:
|
Fastolf Master,
Bedford Master,
Widener, Joseph E.
|
Added Author:
|
Free Library of Philadelphia.
Free Library of Philadelphia.
|
|
Electronic Access:
|
Click here to see images
|
