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 )