Item Summary

Poem containing advice to different classes of the community.

Descriptive Information

Title
Le testament / Jehan de Meun.
Call Number
Garrett MS. 127
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5h73q9093
Publisher
[Picady, France], [between 1425 and 1450]
Language
Old French
Date Created
1425-1475
Format
Manuscript
Extent
29 leaves : paper ; 217 x 140-151 (157-165 x 105-110) mm bound to 226 x 168 mm.
Provenance
Once part of a larger manuscript. Early and intermediate provenance unknown. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript from an unidentified French book dealer. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 290-291.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: "Le pere et le filz et le sainct esperis, Vng dieu en trois personnes aourez et Cheris, Tiegne les bons en graces et Retour(?) les peris, Et doint que cest traities soit a mame meris ..."
Explicit: "Et li prie humblement que nous soions escript, Ou sainct liure de vie que il mesme escript. Explicit le testament maistre Jehan De meun Deo gratias."
Ms. codex.
Title from explict (fol. 29r).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (modern paper) + 30 + i (modern paper) ; foliation in ink using Roman numerals ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 36-40 long lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (bull's head).
Decoration: The first letter in each quatrain is stroked in red.
Origin: Probably of northern French origin, possibly Picardy.
Binding Note
Modern binding. United States, 21st century. Bound by Mick LeTourneaux in the Princeton University Library Preservation Office, 2009.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, French—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
64

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e46b966d-944b-4717-ada3-13875ebf9c95/manifest