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CHRISTINE DE PISAN & MIELOT Jean (& VAN DEN GHEYN J. S.J., ed.)
Christine de Pisan : Epitre d'Othéa, déesse de la prudence à Hector, Chef des Troyens. Reproduction des 100 miniatures du manuscrit 9392 de Jean Miélot
Bruxelles, Vromant & co. 1913 16pp. (introductory text in French) + 100 loose plates (clean and intact), in publisher's cardboard cover with spine in blue cloth, 21x16cm., heraldic ex-libris on first title page, Photographic reproduction of 100 illuminated miniatures, printed in collotype, reproducing in full the pictorial cycle of MS 9392 (Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels), a Burgundian manuscript of Christine Pisan's "Epistre d'Othéa", revised and adapted by Jean Miélot (ca.1460) who was secretary and translator to the Burgundian court. This publication constitutes one of the earliest complete facsimile reproductions of a major illuminated medieval manuscript devoted to Christine de Pisan, one of the first professional woman writers in Western Europe. Her "Epistre d'Othéa" is a didactic and allegorical work in 100 chapters in which the goddess Othea instructs the Trojan hero Hector through moral exampla drawn from classical mythology and chivalric ethics // good condition, Y120593
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Christine de Pisan. Epitre d'Othea, Déesse de la Prudence, a Hector, Chef des Troyens; Reproduction des 100 Miniatures du Manuscrit 9392 de Jean Mielot
1913 Vromant & Co. Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, Bruxelles, 1913 in8 en feuillets sous portefeuille,cartonné imprimé, dos toilé, bleu fermé d'un ruban bleu, 16 pp de texte et 100 belles planches sur papier fort, reproduite en héliogravure, bien qu'en noir et blanc les reproductions sont de tres belles qualité, ouvrage fort rare
