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Egerton MS 745
- Record Id:
- 032-001983803
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001983803
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x000366
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058663067.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 745
- Title:
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Devotional miscellany, including the Lives of St Denis and Edward the Confessor
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-24r: La vie de Saint Eustace;
ff. 25r-27v: : Les Dix Commandemens;
f. 27v-28r: Laidenge et convoitise;
ff. 28v:-30v: Le sermon de Saint Beneoit (Saint Benedict);
f. 30v: Les 15 Joies Nostre Dame;
f. 31v: Meditations;
f. 33r: Les sept vertus;
f. 33r Une prière d'un chevalier;
ff. 33v-36v: Three sermons of St Gregory;
ff. 38v-40v: Les vers d'aumone;
ff. 41r-72v: La vie de Saint Denys, in French prose (imperfect at the beginning);
ff. 73r-78v: La vie de Saint Martin de Vertau;
ff. 79r-81r: La vie Monseigneur Saint Gildas;
ff. 81v-90v: Auctorités;
ff. 91r- 130v: La vie de Saint Edouart (Edward the Confessor);
ff. 130v-199r: Barlaam et Jozaphas (Josaphat);
ff. 199v-207r: Le Pseudo-Chaton (Pseudo Cato);
ff. 207r-213r: Le Doctrinal le Sauvage;
ff. 213v-223v: Le livre des Moralités.
Decoration:
9 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 2r, 3v, 4r, 5v, 6r, 7v, 8v, 9)r. Small column-width miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 25r (x2), 27v, 28v, 30v, 33r, 33v, 35v, 36v, 38v, 42r (x2), 42v (x2), 43v (x2), 47r (x2), 47v (x2), 48v (x2), 49v (x2), 52r, 55v (x2), 56v (x2), 63r, 66r (x2), 67r (x2), 67v, 68r (x2), 69r, 73r, 78r, 81v, 91r, 131r, 199v, 207r, 213v). Small double-column-wide miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 44v, 45r, 46r, 50r, 50v, 51r, 51v, 52r, 53r, 53v, 54r, 54v, 57r, 57v, 58r, 59v, 61v, 62r, 62v, 63v, 64v, 65r); offsets of missing miniatures on ff. 24v and 41r. Large and small initials in gold on red and blue grounds.
The subjects of the images are:
f. 1r: The baptism of Eustace;
f. 2r: St Eustace in a stream with a wolf and a lion holding his sons in their jaws;
f. 3v: St Eustace addressing messengers from Trajan;
f. 4r: St Eustace before Trajan;
f. 5v: A battle;
f. 6r: The reunion of St Eustace’s sons with their mother watching;
f. 7v: The reunion of St Eustace with his family;
f. 8v: St Eustace and his family thrown into the lion's den;
f. 9r: St Eustace and his family in the brazen bull;
f. 25r: The Lord giving Moses the tablet with the Ten Commandments (left): the sin of worship of false gods of gold and possessions (right);
f. 27v: A woman seated before a fire with clothing hanging on a rail, personifying insult and envy;
f. 28v: St Benedict preaching a sermon;
f. 30v: The Virgin Mary and an angel greeting her with the words ‘Ave Maria’;
f. 33: A knight, with the arms of the Count de Chatillon, praying to the Virgin and Child;
f. 33v: Pope Gregory’s first sermon;
f. 35v: Pope Gregory’s second sermon;
f. 36v: Pope Gregory's third sermon;
f. 38v: A woman giving bread to the poor;
f. 42r: Martyrdom of Sts Peter and Paul (left); the descent of Nero into hell (right);
f. 42v: Sts Denis, Eleutherius and Rusticus before Pope Clement (left); he sends them to Gaul (right);
f. 43v: St Denis consecrating Regulus as Bishop (left) and idols falling from an altar before them (right).;
f. 44v: Sts Denis, Eleutherius and Rusticus arriving in Paris, confronted by gold idols on pedestals;
f. 45: St Denis dedicating a church in Paris;
f. 46r: St Denis preaching to a seated crowd, including knights in chain mail,in Paris;
f. 47r: Domitian receiving a message from Paris (left); a martyrdom (right);
f. 47v: St Denis hearing news of his persecutors (left); Denis preaching (right);
f. 48v: St Denis discussing the writing of his bibliography with Santicus and Antoninus (left; Denis, Eleutherius and Rusticus befor Sisinnius (right);
f. 49v: Larcia accuses Sts Denis, Eleutherius and Rusticus of converting her husband, Lisbius by magic (left); Lisbius is beheaded (right);
f. 50r: St Denis stripped and on a rack, being flogged by two men with cat o' nine tails;
f. 50v: St Denis being tortured on the grill with two men stoking the flames
f. 51r: St Denis in the lions' den;
f. 52r: St Denis on the cross (above); his miraculous communion in prison (below);
f. 53r: Sissinius showing Sts Denis, Eleutherius and Rusticus the bodies of martyrs and giving them the chance to recant;
f. 53v: St Denis tied to the stake and flogged again;
f. 54v: Three doves appearing to St Regulus celebrating mass at Arles;
f. 55v: St Denis with his severed head (left); the souls of Sts Denis, Eleutherius and Rusticus taken up to Heaven (right);
f. 56v: Larcia confessing her faith (left); the beheading of Larcia (right);
f. 57r: The bodies of Sts Eleutherius and Rusticus being taken away in a boat (upper left); the boatmen feasting at Catulla's house (lower left); the burial of St Denis (right);
f. 57v: St Regulus blessing the tombs of Sts Denis, Eleutherius and Rusticus;
f. 58r: Catulla being baptised (left) and having a church built (right);
f. 59v: Antoninus, ill in bed, being left with the innkeeper (left); Sancticus returning from Rome to rescue him from the ditch where he was thrown (right);
f. 61v: Sadragesillus kneeling before Chlotar and Dagobert (left); Dagobert in church (right);
f. 62r: Clothar sending servants to pursue Dagobert, who takes refuge at Saint-Denis;
f. 62v: Clothar mounted outside the church (left) Dagobert sleeping on the tomb of St Denis (right).
f. 63r: The reunion of Clothar and Dagobert at the church; Dagobert kneels before the tomb of St Denis;
f. 63v: The coronation of Dagobert, with bishops carrying a reliquary containing the relics of Sts Denis, Eleutherius and Rusticus;
f. 64v: A leper praying in the new church with a group of worshippers outside;
f. 65r: Christ consecrating the new church, with Sts Peter, Paul, Denis, Eleutherius and Rusticus attending;
f. 66r: The leper recounting the miracle to two men (left) and to Dagobert and the bishops (right);
f. 67r: Dagobert ill and making his will;
f. 67v: Two bishops and a cleric;
f. 68r: Dagobert’s soul in a boat (left); his soul rescued by Sts Denis, Martin of Tours and Maurice of Agaune;
f. 69r: Ansoald, Bishop of Poitiers, dictating to Bishop Audoenus the miracle of the rescue of Dagobert’s soul;
f. 73r: St Martin of Vertou surrounded by others;
f. 78r: St Gildas instructing a pupil;
f. 81v: A man instructing others, all holding gloves;
f. 91r: Edward the Confessor carrying Gilly Michael, the Irish beggar and cripple, on his back to the altar at Westminster Abbey;
f. 131r: Barlaam instructing Josaphat;
f. 199v: A bearded older man, perhaps Cato, instructing a young pupil;
f. 207r: A bearded figure with a cloak and walking stick, perhaps Bernard le Sauvage addressing three seated figures;
f. 213v: A philosopher at a lectern listening to the arguments of clerics.
Attributed to the Maubeuge painter (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 10132), a collaborator of the Sub-Fauvel Master (ff. 25r, 27v, 28v, 30v, 33r, 33v, 35v, 36v, 38v, 39v, 73r, 78v, 91r, 213v), and two other painters, A and B (A: Life of St Eustace, ff. 1-9, and Life of St Denis, ff. 41r-72v; B: ff. 131, 199v, 207) (see Stones, 'Roman de Fauvel', 1998).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001983803", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 745: Devotional miscellany, including the Lives of St Denis and Edward the Confessor" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001983803
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001983803
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 232 folios
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058663067.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French
French, Old - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 175 mm (text space: 175 x 120 mm).
Layout: Written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 232 (+ 1 blank leaf after f. 24 + 1 unfoliated original flyleaf at the beginning, and 1 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. ?18th-century green velvet.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Central (Paris).
Provenance:
Gui III de Châtillon (b. c. 1265, d. 1317), or his son Jean (d. 1344), Counts of St Pol: knight kneeling before the Virgin wearing the arms of the Counts of St Pol, followed by an initial including the arms (f. 33r).
Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839 (note on 1st flyleaf), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
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- Publications:
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List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), Eg. no. 745.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 9.
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 (1893), pp. 137-39.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 11.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library 1997), no. 76.
Alison Stones, 'The Stylistic Context of the Roman de Fauvel, with a Note on Fauvain', in Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music, and Image in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS français 146, ed. by Margaret Bent and Andrew Wathey (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), 529-67 (pp. 546, 559).
Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 20.
Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse, 'French Literature and the Counts of Saint-Pol ca. 1178-1377', Viator, 41/1 (2010), 101-140 (pp. 118-22).
Alison Stones, Gothic manuscripts, 1260-1320, 4 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 2013), 1.I, pp. 104, 119, 1.II, pp. 62, 132, 137, 2.II, pp. 93, 250, 251-57.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)