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Comme le bon Dieu veut. : In memory of Sister Mary Cornelia, superior of sisters Notre Dame
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ff. 1-130v; f. 131r-v blank. [Ovid] Heroides. Incipit: Puys que tu es du Retour paresseux/ O ulixes de cueur trop angoisseux. Explicit: Et a phaon a present t'en iras/ Lequel du tout en brief advertiras. Cy finist l'espitre de sapho a phaon. Ces espitres d'ovide ont este translatees de latin en francoys par Reverend pere en dieu Monseigneur d'Engouleme par luy. Rubric: Cy commence la premiere espitre d'ovide de pennelope a ulixes. French. Other creator(s): Octavien de Saint-Gelais, translator. On ff. 1-2v, frontispiece and arguments of the letters. Several early editions; this manuscript lacks the dedication letter to Charles VIII occurring, for example, in the 1528 Paris edition. For other copies of this text, see P. Durrieu and J. J. Marquet de Vasselot,"Les manuscrits à miniatures des Héroïdes d'Ovide traduits par Saint-Gelais et un grand miniaturiste français du XVIe siècle," L'Artiste 7 (1894) 331-47 and 433-53; R. H. Lucas,"Mediaeval French Translations of the Latin Classics to 1500," Speculum 45 (1970) 225-53, esp. 244.
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Kashnor notes, " This locates the fort below Port Nelson, 'occupé par le compagnie qui s'est formée en Canada pour la Baye de Hudson' ; also the forts of St. Duluth, St. Germkain, &ce., intended to protect the French settlements and to prevent the trading passing through to Hudson's Bay." Kashnor dates as ca. 1696. RLIN record suggests 1692. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: linked PL. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 429.
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