Shelfmark
MS 253
Author
Title
Ung petit traictie de Noblesse, compose par Jacques de Va1ere en lange d'Espaigne. Et translate en francoys par maistre Hugues de Salue, prevost de Fournes. Leq[ue]l traictie sadresse au Noble Roy de Castille. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Netherlands or Belgium ; Austria, circa 1480 to circa 1520s.
Physical description
1 volume (81 leaves) : paper ; 29 x 21 cm.
Note
Title and statement of responsibility taken from caption title.
Note
This title bound in with a number of other documents on heraldry and on tournaments and other events attended by Hans Tirol, some of them in his hand. Also includes verse compositions.
Note
Date of production taken from internal evidence.
Note
Main text written in a Flemish bastard hand. A variety of hands, including that of Hans Tirol, in the other texts.
Note
Leaves are unnumbered. The first five and final three leaves date from the 20th century binding restoration.
Note
Pricking visible on some pages of the main text; ruled in drypoint; written in black ink with some rubrication and yellow ornamentation.
Note
Inscription on front board in contemporary hand.
Note
Bookplate of Archdale Kenneth Wickham on front pastedown; according to the interleaved James catalogue, Eton MS 932, the volume was given to Eton College Library by Wickham.
Note
Was included in the sale of the library of Alexander Fürst Dietrichstein of Schloss Nikolsburg in Moravia, which included the libraries of Nuremberg humanist Hieronymus Münzer (1440-1508), his son-in-law Hieronymus Holzschuler (1469-1529), and Ferdinand Grünspühel (1540-1607). The library was sold at auction in Lucerne in 1933. A digital copy of the sale catalogue is available online at http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/gilhofer_ranschburg_luzern1933_11_21bd1/0056) as of February 2018. MS 253 was lot 160.
Binding
20th century mid brown morocco with early 16th century brown calf board covers lifted and reattached; blind tooled triple fillet concentric frames; frame of blind tooled floral roll of roses and leaves; central panel of geometric knotwork roll on front board; blind tooled single fillet and title on spine; four raised bands; fresh endpapers.
Subject
Heraldry Holy Roman Empire Early works to 1800.
Subject
Heraldry France Early works to 1800.
Subject
Tournaments, Medieval EArly works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Wickham, Archdale Kenneth, 1897 - 1951 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Dietrichstein, Alexander Fürst von, 1813 - 1871 former owner.
Added entry--place
Belgium
Added entry--place
Netherlands
Language code
eng
Identifier
B46689