Congratulations to Raynor for this extraordinary bit of writing!  I still owe you a coffee for winning this week.

It is well worth clicking on this image to see it in greater detail than maybe even Raynor has seen...

Withholding title information.  Cambridge, Harvard University.  France, second quarter of 15th century.

The forgery piece is: right hand column, last three lines: "...m'est demouré plaisant et délictable" etc.  Good luck!

Well done, Lauren, winner of this week's forgery contest.  This is beautiful (the word "de" especially!). 

I hope the coffee was yummy.

This week, a lovely gothic bastarda.  

Note: with the late date, be aware of changes in case system (declension)!

Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections

Gordan MS 30 France, after 1457

Jean Germain / Deux pans de la tapisserie chréstienne

 Written in France in after 1457. Early signatures of Joannes de La Juppe senior (ca 1500) on f. 159r, 159v and 169v; on f. 159v “Gengulfinas” has also written his name; on f. 119r “Nycolaus Grandjan, Matisconensis Ecclesie [Mâcon Cathedral] 1599”; on f. 169v a birth entry of Humbertus, son of Claudius Libaud (1540). On f. 110v there is an unidentified small, round library stamp. Obtained from Paris by Thomas Phillipps (his Middle Hill stamp 2840 on recto of front flyleaf, and his number in ink on f. 1r), his sale (London, 1903, n. 497) to Quaritch (Cat. 321, Dec. 1912, n. 265; Cat. 357, Feb. 1920, n. 391); Maggs, cat. 542 (1930), n. 165). Owned by Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate, De Ricci census no. in lead on inside front cover), and given by him to Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.  (from: http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/gordanms30.shtml )

Congratulations to Robyn, for winning the first forgery contest of the semester!  Happy coffee/tea/etc!

The spectacular Les Décades (originally authored Titus Livius), tr into French by Pierre Berseure (1290-1362) in the Harvard Richardson Collection.  The full bibliographic reference:

	Vol. 1 (ca. 1425-30) : illumination attributed to a follower of the Bedford Master; v. 2 (ca. 1415) : illumination attributed to the Boucicaut Master and his workshop, and to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal.
	Title supplied by cataloger.
	Bound in late 18th-cent. russia, by James Scott of Edinburgh (label).
	In a tray case, 49 cm. (http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/URYDLMU5I21U74R9TED87TKLQFEP4SMFJ11SPAVQBSK1IG8VJ8-01242?func=find-c&amp=&CCL_TERM=sys%3D009887707&pds_handle=GUEST)

Cambridge.  Harvard University, MS Richardson 32, vol 1, f. 1r

Cambridge.  Harvard University, MS Richardson 32, vol 1, f. 39r

Cambridge.  Harvard University, MS Richardson 32, vol 1, f. 70r

Cambridge.  Harvard University, MS Richardson 32, vol 1, f. 103v

Cambridge.  Harvard University, MS Richardson 32, vol 2, f. 1r

Cambridge.  Harvard University, MS Richardson 32, vol 2, f. 37r

 Above: folio 8v.  Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library

MS Typ 0555.  Inscribed date: 1373

Above: our exercise for next time.  A very readable Gothic Quadrata, early-middle 1300s?