Descriptive Information

Title

La somme le roy ... [etc.]

Call Number

Princeton MS. 105

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2v23w8143

Publisher

Arras, 1437.

Language

Middle French

Date Created

1437

Format

Manuscript

Extent

175 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 290 x 212 (200 x 148) mm bound to 304 x 225 mm.

Provenance

Created for for Louis de Chantemerle, seigneur de La Clayette. Later owned by the Franciscan convent of La Clayette. Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired the manuscript in the 1820s. Purchased by William H. Robinson, Ltd. from the Phillipps heirs in 1946. The Robinson Trust consigned it to a Sotheby's, London, auction in 1967. The Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, acting as the agent for the Princeton University Library, purchased the manuscript on 28 November 1967 at the Sotheby's sale.

Source Acquisition

Purchase; 19671128

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 330-332.

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Contents

1. fol. 1r-6r: La table des Rebriches du liure nomme la somme le Roy.

2. fol. 7r-125v: La somme le roy.

3. fol. 127r-155r: Lapocalipse.

4. fol. 155r-175v: [Second Lucidaire]

Notes

Incipit: [La somme le roy] "Cy commence le livre nomme summa regis. Aucun bien se on le saet on ne le doit mie ..." -- [Lapocalipse] "Cy commence lapocalipse nostre seigneur selon saint Jehan premierement le Prologue et tous yeulx verront dieu venant et nues de ciel de la vision qui lui fu monstree en lisle de pathmos. [A]pocalipce de Jesu christ que dieux lui donna pour faire assauoir aux serfz ce que Il commendra que Il soit tost fait ..." -- [Second Lucidaire] "Cy commence ung aultre liure contient lxxv chapitres et parle premierement de noblesce espirituele Et quele est la greigneur noblesce qua homme ou femme puet acquerre en ce monde."

Explicit: [La somme le roy] "... et le compila et fist ung frere de lordre des prescheurs de paris a la Requeste du Roy de france loys qui le fist faire pour lire deuant son filz philippe en lan de lincarnation nostre seigneur mcclxxix on mois de mars. Explicit. Et transcript par Jehannin de Costimont Clerc et seruiteur de loys seigneur de chantemerle et de la clayete ... A arras es mois de januier et feurier lan de grace mil quatre cens trente et sept. J. Coustimont." -- [Lapocalipse] "... que nous puissons auec lui en sa gloire en corps et en ame sans fin Regner. Amen. Cy finie lapocalipce Saint Jehan Par moy Transcript J. Costimont. Explicit Nota." -- [Second Lucidaire] "Et sont trouuez ces xv signes en liures certains et esprouuez. Explicit transcript par Moy Costimont."

Ms. composite codex.

Title from table of contents (fol. 1r).

Collation: Parchment ; fol. ii (paper) + i (modern parchment) + 175 + i (modern parchment [labeled 176]) + ii (paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil.

Layout: 33 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.

Decoration: Ink-and-wash miniature (fol. 1r) depicting Laurent, the Dominican, at the royal court with his book reading to four royal children seated on a bench. 2- to 6-line gold initials on blue and pink ground. A few larger initials illustrated (fol. 7r [coat-of-arms], 49r [enclosure?], etc.).

Origin: Written by the scribe Jehannin de Costimont.

Binding Note

Later binding. France, early 19th century. Bound in Paris by the firm of René Simier. Gold-tooled green morocco over pasteboard. Gold-tooled edging, edges, and turn-ins. Elaborate gold-tooled spine. Red marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Gilt edges. Multi-colored endbands. Green silk ribbon attached to headband as bookmark.

Discovery Information

Subject

Virtues—Early works to 1800

Vices—Early works to 1800

Christian ethics—Catholic authors—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, French—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

362

Institutional Information

Collection

Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/edfa6666-44ce-4363-89d4-51ba5f60b1dc/manifest

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