[MANUSCRIT]. [ANONYMOUS (partly after Raoul de MONTFIQUET, T - Lot 35

[MANUSCRIT]. [ANONYMOUS (partly after Raoul de MONTFIQUET, Traitié du saint sacrement, estat et fruit de mariage)]. Traicté du sacrement du mariaige faict a l'honneur de dieu & pour l'instruction de la conscience de ceulx & celles que dieu a appellez auduct estat & vocation In French, illuminated manuscript on parchment France, probably Paris, 16th century, circa 1540 (necessarily after 1533, date cited on fol. 10). 47 ff (last three leaves are ruled but blank parchment leaves), complete [collation: i8, ii8, iii8, iv7 (8-1, vii missing but no text missing), v8, vi8] (ff. 1v and 2 very faded, reading difficult), very regular Roman lettering (imitating humanistic), ruled in pale red ink, text inscribed in frames on all pages, frames in liquid gold and brown paint, a few advertisements, 20 lines per page (justification: 150 x 113 mm), numerous small initials in liquid gold on blue or dark red backgrounds with gold decoration (1 line high), two initials painted in blue with white highlights on liquid gold backgrounds with plant and fruit (strawberry) motif (2 lines high), two large initials introducing the main divisions of the text (fol. 1 and fol. 44), one in gold on a brown background with acanthus and foliate scrolls with gilded foliage (fol. 1) and the other in blue with white highlights on a gilded background with pink and green scrolls and flowers (fol. 44) (4 lines high). Manuscript covered with pasteboard boards, old inscriptions on upper board, 5-ribbed spine. Dimensions: 215 x 145 mm. Mottling, some leaves with text partly erased, other leaves clearly legible. Rare manuscript on conjugal morality, based on Raoul de Monfiquet's text, but adapted to the context of lineage research, probably in a royal or French court context. An export certificate dated 20/02/2024 will be given to the buyer. TEXT ff. 1-44, Traité du sacrement de mariage, introduced by the heading, Traicté du sacrement du mariaige faict a l'honneur de dieu & pour l'instruction de la conscience de ceulx & celles que dieu a appellez auduct estat & vocation; incipit, "Mariaige au dire des sainctz docteurs est ung lien indissoluble entre l'homme et la femme procedant d'ung mutuel accord & consentement... "; explicit, " [...] after this laborious exile & mortal life with his blessed angels the holy & very happy rest in his eternal glory. Amen". ff. 44-44v, Prayer at the end of the manuscript, introduced by the rubric, Oraison a dieu pour luy demander lignée ; incipit, " Mon dieu père éternel qui avez ordonné & institué le sacrement de mariaige pour multiplier le genre humain... " ; explicit, " [...] & que a iamais en paradis soit par iceulx en la compaignie des benoistz sainctz & sainctes vostre hault nom & immortel loué & honoré. A[men]". ff. 45-47v, ruled blank leaves, with the exception of an inscription on the recto of leaf 47: "This manuscript is from the fourteenth century". This manuscript contains an exposition of conjugal morality punctuated by historical and scriptural examples, compiled by an author who, for the time being, remains anonymous. We have found no trace of it in directories of early and Renaissance texts in manuscript form. It is partly, but only partly, inspired by Raoul de Montfiquet's Traitié du saint sacrement, estat et fruit de mariage, et de la grande excellence, perfection, dignité, vertu et louenge d'icelluy...compilé par Maistre Raoul de Montfiquet, Paris, Durant-Gerlier, 1495. A passage in the first chapter of Raoul de Montfiquet's work begins as follows: "Marriage is an indissoluble bond or obligation between persons of legitimate man and woman / because of their consent by which they give and transport their bodies to each other to engender, nourish and instruct to the loyalty of god lineage..." (copy consulted: BnF, Réserve, D-4873). This incipit is not reproduced verbatim in the present anonymous manuscript, but we can clearly see the influence of Raoul de Montfiquet, a 15th-century writer of Norman origin, once rector of the University of Paris (1475), who died in 1501 (see Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age, Paris, 1992, pp. 1240-1241). The text of the present manuscript differs from Raoul de Montfiquet's very quickly, notably in its clear references to the 16th century and the reign of François I, King of France (1515-1547). Let's quote the reference to the beginnings of the Reformation: "Et icy ne veulx taire le tresillustre & catholicque faict digne de grande & perpétuelle mémoire du Roy treschrestien Francois premier Roy de ce nom qui estant a Fontaynebleau peu de temps après Pasques l'an cinq cens trente trois le dixneufiesme de son r