Friday Faves: Sandra Hindman highlights the Letter LIV To Furia in the translation by Charles Bonin
June 19, 2020Owned by a woman of the French aristocracy, Anne de Polignac, who was widowed twice, still in its original purple velvet binding and adorned with a frontispiece painted by the Master of Spencer 6, this deluxe manuscript presents a unique copy of a French translation by a hitherto unknown translator of Saint Jerome’s letter to the widow Furia.