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Auction archive: Lot number 42

OCTOVIEN DE SAINT-GELAIS (1466/68 - 1502), Epistres d'Ovide,...

Estimate
£500,000 - £800,000
ca. US$764,088 - US$1,222,541
Price realised:
£601,250
ca. US$918,816
Auction archive: Lot number 42

OCTOVIEN DE SAINT-GELAIS (1466/68 - 1502), Epistres d'Ovide,...

Estimate
£500,000 - £800,000
ca. US$764,088 - US$1,222,541
Price realised:
£601,250
ca. US$918,816
Beschreibung:

OCTOVIEN DE SAINT-GELAIS (1466/68 - 1502), Epistres d'Ovide , French verse translation of five of Ovid's Heroides ; ?OCTOVIEN DE SAINT-GELAIS or FRANÇOIS ROBERTET (d.1524/30), Epitaphe de Madame de Balsac , L'arrest de la louenge de la dame sans sy , L'appel ... contre la dame sans sy , in French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
OCTOVIEN DE SAINT-GELAIS (1466/68 - 1502), Epistres d'Ovide , French verse translation of five of Ovid's Heroides ; ?OCTOVIEN DE SAINT-GELAIS or FRANÇOIS ROBERTET (d.1524/30), Epitaphe de Madame de Balsac , L'arrest de la louenge de la dame sans sy , L'appel ... contre la dame sans sy , in French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Paris c.1493]265 x 190mm. ii paper + 59 + ii paper leaves: 1of 2, i cancelled, later addition), 2-8 8 , 9 2 , f.59 former pastedown, ends of vertically written catchwords in lower margins of final versos, COMPLETE, 21 lines written in a rounded gothic bookhand in black ink between two verticals and 22 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 175 x 112mm, titles to final three poems in red, one-line initials in liquid gold on grounds alternately of light blue and maroon, every line with a line-ending either of light blue and maroon patterned with liquid gold or of a knotty branch in brown, later title in red and black on a shield of burnished gold, EIGHT MINIATURES EITHER FULL-PAGE OR WITH PICTORIAL BORDERS IN RECTANGULAR FRAMES OF LIQUID GOLD surrounded by marbling of liquid gold on black and enclosing two lines of text opening with a large initial in liquid gold on a ground of blue or maroon patterned with white (slight wear to margins, some rubbing and cockling to edges of miniatures, faint diagonal crease to miniature f.20, trimmed into frame f.20). 18th-century red morocco gilt with spine in six compartments gilt, title gilt (slight damp staining). Burgundy morocco case, title gilt. A COMPILATION OF VERSES ON FEMALE TRAGEDY AND BEAUTY, THE UNIQUE AND OPULENTLY ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT MADE FOR ANNE OF BRITTANY, QUEEN OF FRANCE PROVENANCE: 1. The three final poems originated in the court of Anne of Brittany (1477-1514), duchess of Brittany in her own right and Queen of Charles VIII from 1491 to 1498 and then of his successor, Louis XII, from 1499 until her death. In the Appel , the poet visits the Queen, as seen on f.55, when three of her ladies bring the 'Appeal' against the 'Decree' proclaimed in the Arrest of one woman, probably a poetic fiction, as the Dame sans Sy or 'Peerless Lady' of all time. The first lady, Montsoreau , is Jeanne Chabot, dame de Montsoreau; born before 1429 she had served Louis XI's Queen and in 1492 was one of the senior of the Queen's ladies; in 1498 she had been joined by her daughter Jeanne de Chambes-Montsoreau, dame de Beaumont The second, Mombrom , is usually identified as Blanche de Montbéron but is more probably her sister Marie, attendant on the Queen in 1492; there is possibly some confusion in the documents between her and a third sister, Jeanne, wife of Jacques de Chabannes, seigneur de la Palisse. Marie married Geoffroi de Balsac in 1492 and died not long afterwards: it is her death that is lamented in the first poem. The third lady, Tallaru , is Francoise de Talaru, paid in 1492 as one of the Queen's demoiselles , who married Hugues de Montbardon, seigneur de Villeneuve (Le Roux de Lincy, Vie de la reine Anne de Bretagne , 1860-61; P.-H. Morice, Mémoires pour servir ... à l'histoire ... de Bretagne , 1742). The volume must postdate the death of Madame de Balsac and the costume supports a dating in the early 1490s, well before February 1497 (n.s.) when Octovien de Saint-Gelais dedicated his full translation of all twenty-one of Ovid's Epistolae to Charles VIII. The very specific compilation of the Arcana volume was apparently intended for Anne of Brittany herself: it is the only known manuscript copy to combine these texts and the Queen appears in state in the sumptuous miniature on f.55. It is of a luxury and quality appropriate for the library of a Queen who owned books illuminated by the greatest painters of the age. 2. Luis de Mendoça: 16th-century ownership inscription, f.39v and, erased, f.12v; further erased inscriptions on f.59. He also inscribed a copy of a somewhat similar work La complainte de Gennes on a lady supposedly dying for love of Louis

Auction archive: Lot number 42
Auction:
Datum:
7 Jul 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
7 July 2010, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

OCTOVIEN DE SAINT-GELAIS (1466/68 - 1502), Epistres d'Ovide , French verse translation of five of Ovid's Heroides ; ?OCTOVIEN DE SAINT-GELAIS or FRANÇOIS ROBERTET (d.1524/30), Epitaphe de Madame de Balsac , L'arrest de la louenge de la dame sans sy , L'appel ... contre la dame sans sy , in French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
OCTOVIEN DE SAINT-GELAIS (1466/68 - 1502), Epistres d'Ovide , French verse translation of five of Ovid's Heroides ; ?OCTOVIEN DE SAINT-GELAIS or FRANÇOIS ROBERTET (d.1524/30), Epitaphe de Madame de Balsac , L'arrest de la louenge de la dame sans sy , L'appel ... contre la dame sans sy , in French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Paris c.1493]265 x 190mm. ii paper + 59 + ii paper leaves: 1of 2, i cancelled, later addition), 2-8 8 , 9 2 , f.59 former pastedown, ends of vertically written catchwords in lower margins of final versos, COMPLETE, 21 lines written in a rounded gothic bookhand in black ink between two verticals and 22 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 175 x 112mm, titles to final three poems in red, one-line initials in liquid gold on grounds alternately of light blue and maroon, every line with a line-ending either of light blue and maroon patterned with liquid gold or of a knotty branch in brown, later title in red and black on a shield of burnished gold, EIGHT MINIATURES EITHER FULL-PAGE OR WITH PICTORIAL BORDERS IN RECTANGULAR FRAMES OF LIQUID GOLD surrounded by marbling of liquid gold on black and enclosing two lines of text opening with a large initial in liquid gold on a ground of blue or maroon patterned with white (slight wear to margins, some rubbing and cockling to edges of miniatures, faint diagonal crease to miniature f.20, trimmed into frame f.20). 18th-century red morocco gilt with spine in six compartments gilt, title gilt (slight damp staining). Burgundy morocco case, title gilt. A COMPILATION OF VERSES ON FEMALE TRAGEDY AND BEAUTY, THE UNIQUE AND OPULENTLY ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT MADE FOR ANNE OF BRITTANY, QUEEN OF FRANCE PROVENANCE: 1. The three final poems originated in the court of Anne of Brittany (1477-1514), duchess of Brittany in her own right and Queen of Charles VIII from 1491 to 1498 and then of his successor, Louis XII, from 1499 until her death. In the Appel , the poet visits the Queen, as seen on f.55, when three of her ladies bring the 'Appeal' against the 'Decree' proclaimed in the Arrest of one woman, probably a poetic fiction, as the Dame sans Sy or 'Peerless Lady' of all time. The first lady, Montsoreau , is Jeanne Chabot, dame de Montsoreau; born before 1429 she had served Louis XI's Queen and in 1492 was one of the senior of the Queen's ladies; in 1498 she had been joined by her daughter Jeanne de Chambes-Montsoreau, dame de Beaumont The second, Mombrom , is usually identified as Blanche de Montbéron but is more probably her sister Marie, attendant on the Queen in 1492; there is possibly some confusion in the documents between her and a third sister, Jeanne, wife of Jacques de Chabannes, seigneur de la Palisse. Marie married Geoffroi de Balsac in 1492 and died not long afterwards: it is her death that is lamented in the first poem. The third lady, Tallaru , is Francoise de Talaru, paid in 1492 as one of the Queen's demoiselles , who married Hugues de Montbardon, seigneur de Villeneuve (Le Roux de Lincy, Vie de la reine Anne de Bretagne , 1860-61; P.-H. Morice, Mémoires pour servir ... à l'histoire ... de Bretagne , 1742). The volume must postdate the death of Madame de Balsac and the costume supports a dating in the early 1490s, well before February 1497 (n.s.) when Octovien de Saint-Gelais dedicated his full translation of all twenty-one of Ovid's Epistolae to Charles VIII. The very specific compilation of the Arcana volume was apparently intended for Anne of Brittany herself: it is the only known manuscript copy to combine these texts and the Queen appears in state in the sumptuous miniature on f.55. It is of a luxury and quality appropriate for the library of a Queen who owned books illuminated by the greatest painters of the age. 2. Luis de Mendoça: 16th-century ownership inscription, f.39v and, erased, f.12v; further erased inscriptions on f.59. He also inscribed a copy of a somewhat similar work La complainte de Gennes on a lady supposedly dying for love of Louis

Auction archive: Lot number 42
Auction:
Datum:
7 Jul 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
7 July 2010, London, King Street
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