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Harley MS 4401

Record Id:

040-002050238

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050238

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000281

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4401

Title:

Gautier de Coincy, Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame

Scope & Content:

An imperfect copy of Gautier de Coincy's miracles of the Virgin Mary, including his lyrics (with musical notation) dedicated to her.

Contents:

ff. 1r-189v: Gautier de Coincy, Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame.

Four- and three-line staffs with C-clefs and quasi-square neumes:

f. 3v: 'Amors, qui bien set enchanter'.

ff. 3v-4r: 'Qui que face retruenge nouvelle'.

ff. 4r-4v: 'Roine celestre buer fussiez vous nee'.

f. 4v: 'Talant me prent orandroit'.

f. 5r: 'Enforcier mestuet ma voiz'.

f. 5r: 'Quant ces floretes florir voi'.

f . 5v: 'Por conforter mon cuer et mon coraige'.

f. 106v: 'Por la pucelle anchantant me deport'.

f. 107r: 'Mere deu, virge senee'.

ff. 107r-107v: 'Lamor dont ie sui espris'.

f. 107v: 'Avue amor eore et sene'

ff. 107v-108r: 'Qui matin a ma iornee'.

Decoration:

53 puzzle initials in red and blue with red and blue penwork decoration; 1 at the beginning of each prologue and miracle. Numerous smaller initials in red with blue penwork decoration, and blue with red penwork decoration. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050238

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4401 : Gautier de Coincy, Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4394]/040-002050238

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Old

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1245

End Date:

1255

Date Range:

c 1250–c 1275

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 280 x 250 mm (text space: 210 x 140 mm) in 2 columns.

Foliation: ff. 189 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated paper flylealves at the end).

Script: Gothic, written below the top line.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France, N.

Provenance:

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.

Publications:

H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883–1910), II, H. L. D. Ward (1893), pp. 717-27.

Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906–1909), I (1906), p. 423.

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4401.

F. J. Furnivall, E. Brock, and W.A. Clouston, Originals and Analogues of some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 5 vols (London: Chaucer Society, 1872-88), Series II, V (1888), pp. 251-76.

Gautier de Coinci, Les Miracles de Nostre Dame, ed. by Frederic Koenig, 4 vols (Geneva: Droz, 1955-170), on the text.

Arlette P. Ducrot-Granderye, Études sur les miracles Nostre Dame de Gautier de Coinci, Annales Academiae scientiarum Fennicae, B. XXV (Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1980), pp. 67-68.

Donna Mayer-Martin, 'Respun Melodies for the Virgin: Trouvère Models for the Songs of Gautier de Coinci', in Medieval Manuscripts in Transition: Tradition and Creative Recycling, ed. by Geert H. M. Claassens and Werner Verbeke, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Series 1 / Studia 36 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2006), pp. 161-78 (pp. 165-68; 172).

Kathryn A. Duys, 'Manuscripts that Preserve the Songs of Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame (Listed by Date and Siglum)', in Gautier de Coinci. Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 13 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), pp. 245-368 (p. 367).

Tony Hunt, Miraculous Rhymes: The Writing of Gautier de Coincy (Cambridge: Brewer, 2007), on the text.

Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, music and manuscripts ed. by Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), pp. 22, 25, 289, 295, 346, 351, 353, 367, 379, 430, MS C.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Coincy, Gautier, abbot and music arranger, ?1177-1236

Related Material:

Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, vol. 1 (London: British Museum, 1906), p. 423:

'ff. 3b-5b, 106b-108. Hymns to the Virgin in French, introduced, after the prologues, at the beginning of the two books of Miracles of the Virgin by Gautier de Quensi (sc. de Coincy), a monk, afterwards Prior, of St. Médard at Soissons. The musical notes which accompany all the hymns are quasi-square or diamond-shaped on staves of four red lines with the C or F signatures and quasi-bars. 1. 'Amors, qui bien set anchanter.' f. 3b. 2. ' Qui que face retruenge nouuelle.' f.3b. 3. 'Roine celestre, buer fussiez vous nee.' f. 4. 4. 'Talant me prent or androit.' f . 4b. 5. 'Esforcier mestuet ma uoiz.' f. 5. 6. 'Quant ces floretes florir voi.' f. 5. 7. 'Por conforter mon cuer et mon coraige.' f. 5b. 8. 'Por la pucelle anchantant me deport.' f. 106b. 9. 'Mere deu, uirge senee.' f. 107. 10. 'Lamor dont ie sui espris.' f. 107. 11. 'A vne amor eore et sene.' f. 107b. 12. 'Qui matin a ma iornee.' f. 107b.'