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ff. 1-20v; f. 21r-v blank. Traicté de peyne. Incipit: Apres avoyr par longtemps travaille/ Couru trote longuement et sans cesse. Explicit: En payement ils prendront si leur plaist/ De par nous troys ce present tel qu'il est./ Faict et conclus en vos pays et marches/ Par troys amys dont les troys ne sont qu'ung/ Les penitens de vostre mayson d'arches/ Dont l'escripvain feust et sera"Tant brun.". French. f. 1r-v blank; ff. 2-3, dedication; ff. 3-20v, text; f. 21r-v blank. E. Paillet, ed., Le Traicté de peyne, poëme allégorique dédié à Monseigneur et à Madame de Lorraynne, manuscrit inédit du XVIe siècle (Paris 1867) from this manuscript (only known copy) in a limited edition, of which one copy on vellum, now Huntington Library RB 194320. Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Bâtarde. Layout: 1²(+ 3; ff. iii-iv and 1) 2-6⁴. 19 lines of verse, ruled in lead with double bounding lines. Span folios: ff. 1-21v. Decoration: Sixteen miniatures in narrow gold frames painted in camaïeu gris with gold and flesh tones. Other Decoration: 2-line initials and ribbon line fillers in painted gold on a black ground. Assigned Date: s. XVI1. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/4/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, s. XIX, in brown morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet; gilt edges. HM 49. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Written by"Tant brun" (author/copyist?) in eastern France in the first half of the sixteenth century, and dedicated to the Duke (presumably Antoine, 1489-1544) and the Duchess of Lorraine by the three"Penitens de vostre mayson d'Arches" (near épinal, in the Vosges). Found in 1793 in the Château de Guise, according to a note on f. iii:"Guise, vu Desforges"; Desforges collection; given by Dollé to M. Robillard, président du Tribunal, Reims, who sold it to the Parisian book dealer Potier in 1866; Comte de Lignerolles sale, Paris, 1894, pt. I, n. 25 to Eugène Paillet (1829-1901), conseiller à la Cour d'Appel de Paris; his sale, Paris, 1902, pt. I, n. 2; sale by Sotheby's, 17 June 1903, n. 106 to Quaritch. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Cat. (1909) pp. 173-74; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2180 to G. D. Smith; his Cat. 3 (1911) n. 23 to Henry E. Huntington.
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