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Subject(s)

• Isabelle Princess of France 1225-1270—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, French—France [Browse]
• Manuscripts, French—France—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Attributed author

• Messier, Robert, -1546 [Browse]

Former owner

• Lignerolles, Raoul Léonor L'Homme Dieu du Tranchant, comte de, 1817-1893 [Browse]
• Ruble, Alphonse de, 1831-1898 [Browse]
• Abbaye de Longchamp (Paris, France) [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 188 [Browse]

Notes

• Title from printed catalog.
• The anonymous life and miracles of Isabel de France (1225-1270), younger sister of Saint Louis (King Louis IX) (r. 1226-1270), has been attributed to the Franciscan friar Robert Messier [Le Messier] (d. 1546), who was associated with the Franciscan abbey at Longchamp in the 1520s until his death, although it is not listed among his known works.
• Script: Bastard Secretary.
• Decoration: The main text opens with a 2-line painted gold initial on a red background. Rubrics; alternating blue and red paraph marks; decorative line-fillers.

Binding note

France, 19th century. Bound by the firm of George Trautz (1808-1879) and Antoine Bauzonnet, Paris. Signed “Trautz-Bauzonnet.” The manuscript was probably rebound when it was in the library of Raoul Léonor l'Homme Dieu du Trachant, comte de Lignerolles (see Provenance). Blue morocco over pasteboard, then decorated with fleurons, and fleurs-de-lis; doublures of blue morocco decorated with fleurs-de-lis; single gold fillet on board edges; gilt edges.

Contents

• 1.1r-35r: “A la louenge de nostre seigneur dieu et de la tres sacree mere de ihesu crist et a l'honneur de madame nostre saincte mere ysabel de france aussi a la promocion de la deuocion des venerables dames et deuottes religieuses du sainct monastere de longchamp. Sensuit la declaracion de la saincte vie de la dicte nostre saincte mere ysabel diuisee en douze chapitres ... Sensuit la saincte vie de tres- haulte noble et excellente dame et de bonne memoire madame ysabel de France seur du bon roy de France monseigneur sainct Loys et fille du roy de France nomme Loys et de la royn e son espouse nommee Blance fille du roy d'Espaigne.” Explicit: “... en la vie presente la grace de dieu et en la fin paradis. Amen.”
• 2.35r-37r: “A la louenge et glore (!) de nostre seigneur dieu et a le exaltation de nostre saincte mere madame ysabel de france ...” Explicit: “... par les merites de nostre saincte mere a nostre monastere, louenge en soit donnee a dieu. Amen.”
• 3.37r-v: “Bulle du Pape Eugene quartiesme pour le Ieusne. Eugene quatriesme à concedé que les religieuses de Saincte Claire du tiers ordres & toutes aultres qui sont soubz la iurisdiction des supperieurs des freres mineurs ...” Explicit: “... 46. quarante six, paragraphe 42, concession 47. Finis.”

Provenance

Princeton MS. 188 was probably produced around 1518 at or for the Franciscan abbey at Longchamp, situated in what is now the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. Intermediate provenance is unknown. In the late 19th century, the manuscript was in the library of Raoul Léonor l'Homme Dieu du Trachant, comte de Lignerolles (1817-1893). The manuscript later passed to Baron Alphonse de Ruble (1831-1898). The manuscript was auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot on 14 December 1990. The Princeton University Library purchased the manuscript from Sandra Hindman (Les Enluminures, Paris, Chicago) (Acc. no. 2005-118).

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 467-469.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 188, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1116067963

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