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Egerton MS 613

Record Id:

032-001983663

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001983663

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x0002f1

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100058663062.0x000001

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Egerton MS 613

Title:

Prose and Verse Miscellany

Scope & Content:

The manuscript is a composite miscellany of verse and prose texts of a religious and didactic character.

ff. 71r-74v: booklet with 15th-century medical recipes against gout, pestilence, swellings and other pains. 130 x 90 mm ( text space: 95 x 75 mm)

The core parts of the manuscript were completed at various points during the thirteenth century, with additions to these in the mid-fourteenth century. Internal evidence indicates that quires i and v-viii, and probably ii-iv as well, were almost certainly grouped together by the middle of the fourteenth century. Quire ix may have been part of the volume in the thirteenth century, and thus associated with quires i-viii by the mid-fourteenth century. Quire x could have been inserted at any time between the late-fifteenth and early-nineteenth centuries; there is no evidence of its association with the other contents prior to its sale. (For further details, see Hill, 'British Library MS Egerton 613 - I', Notes & Queries, n.s. 25 (1978), pp. 408-09).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Egerton Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Parchment codex (composite)

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
French, Middle
French, Old
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

13th century-15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 140 mm (text space: 170/185 x 90/120 mm). Folios 71-74: 130 x 95 mm (text space: 100 x 70/75 mm).

Foliation: ff. 74 (plus ten unfoliated modern paper endleaves at the beginning and ten at the end).

Collation: i⁶ (ff. 1-6), ii⁸ (ff. 7-14), iii⁶ (ff. 15-20), iv⁸ (ff. 21-28), v⁶ (ff. 29-34), vi-viii⁸ (ff. 35-58), ix¹² (ff. 59-70), x⁴ (ff. 71-74).

Script: Gothic (Textura, ff. 1v, 2r-2v, 7r-70v), Gothic cursive (Anglicana, ff. 1r, 2r, 3r-6v; Secretary, ff. 71r-74v). Eleven scribes involved in copying parts of this manuscript (see: Hill, 'British Library MS Egerton 613 - I', Notes & Queries, new ser. 25 (1978), pp. 395-396):

- Scribe 1: ff. 59r-70v (items 19-20) - 1st half of the 13th century.

- Scribe 2: ff. 7r-30r (items 9-16) - 13th century.

- Scribe 3: f. 1v (item 1) - 13th century.

- Scribe 4: ff. 3r-6r (item 6) - 13th century.

- Scribe 5: f. 6v (item 7) - 13th century.

- Scribe 6: ff. 31r-58v (item 18) - 13th century.

- Scribe 7: f. 2r (item 2) - 13th century.

- Scribe 8: ff. 2r-2v (item 3) - 2nd half of the thirteenth century.

- Scribe 9: ff. 2v, 6v (items 4-5 and 8) - late 13th century.

- Scribe 10: f. 30v (item 17) - late 13th century.

- Scribe 11: ff. 71-74 (item 21) - 2nd half of the 15th century.

A further scribe made additions to ff. 1r, 40r and 50r, 1st half of the 14th century.

Binding: British Museum in-house, late 19th/early 20th century.

Custodial History:

Origin: England (?south-west Midlands) (see Hill, 'British Library MS Egerton 613 - I', Notes & Queries, n.s. 25 (1978), p. 409).

Provenance:

Partially erased inscription 'R' (or maybe 'B') 'U' (f. 1v).

William Bentham of Gower Street: his sale, May 1836.

Purchased at Sotheby’s by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829); inscription by Sir Frederic Madden on f. [iii]r.

Publications:

List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCXXXVI-MDCCCXL (London: by order of the Trustees, 1843), p. 43 (1836).

Betty Hill, 'British Library MS. Egerton 613 - I', Notes & Queries, 223(1978), 394-409.

Tony Hunt, 'Insular Trilingual Compilations', in Codices Miscellanearum, ed. by R. Jansen-Sieben and H. van Dijk (Brussels: Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, 1999), pp. 51-70 (pp. 57-58, 69).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

le Clerc, Guillaume, Early 13th century

Related Material:

From the List of Additions (1843), p. 43 (1836):

'MISCELLANIES in prose and verse, among which are, Three short religious poems in English; -Epistle to a lady on the Sufferings of Christ, in Norman-French; -A moral poem, in early English [v. Hickes. Thes. i. 222 ; ii. 83.] ; -Sentences from the Fathers, in Norman-French; -La revelaciun, [i. e. the Gospel of Nichodemus, in Norman-French]; -La veniance del mort Nostre Seignur; -Cum faitemente li Saincte Croiz fu trové al mund de Calvarie par Heleine la reine; -L'estoire del exaltaciun de la Sainte Cruz; -Li bestiaire, a poem, by Guillaume, clerc de Normandie; -Moral poem, in Norman- French;-A second copy of the early English moral poem. [Imperf.] On vellum, of the xiiith century. [Bibl. Eg. 613.]'

Further information:

Theology: Short treatises on the invention and exaltation of the Holy Cross: in Anglo-Norman.

Theology: La veniance del mort Nostre Seignur.

Theology: La Revelaciun, i. e. the gospel of Nicodemus: in Anglo-Norman.

Theology: Sentences from the Fathers: in Anglo-Norman.

Theology: Epistle to a Lady, on the sufferings of Christ: in Anglo-Norman.

Poetry French and Anglo - Norman: Several pieces of French poetry: of the xiiith and xivth cents.

Poetry ENGLISH: Moral and religious poems in English and French: of the xiiith cent.

Our Saviour Jesus Christ: Epistle to a lady, on the sufferings. of Christ: in Norman-French.

Guillaume, Clerc, de Normandie: Li Bestiaire, in: Anglo-Norman verse.