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Egerton MS 945
- Record Id:
- 032-001984014
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001984014
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x000034
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100177809622.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 945
- Title:
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Collection of devotional texts with musical notation
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-11r: Added prayers, chants and collects in Latin, including a series of four prayers to the Virgin, each beginning, '[P]recor te S[anc]ta M[ari]a perpetua virgo' (f. 9r).
ff. 12r-15v: Dits des Trois morts et des trois vifs (The Three Living and Three Dead) in Old French, beginning, 'Compains, uois tu ce que je uoi...'.
ff. 16r-42v: Prayers in Old French prose, including the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, beginning, 'Douce dame de misericorde'; interpretation or paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer in Old French from the Somme le roi: 'Qant on met un e[n]fant a letre au com[m]enceme[n]t on li aprent le pat[er] n[ost]re' (f. 22v); 'Or as tu oi le prologue de la sainte pat[er] n[ost]re' (f. 28v); 'Es chaudes eues crient' (f. 40r); 'Sains Augustins dit que tam le autres vices' (f. 42r).
ff. 43r-45v: 'Ave Maria' in Old French verse, beginning, 'Ave dame ie vos salu'.
ff. 45v-52r: 'Miserere' in French verse with lines in Latin, beginning, 'Sire Dieus, o moi soies'.
ff. 54r-100r: Prayers to the Virgin including, 'Ave virgo lignum mite', 'Ave Maria', 'O Intemerata', 'Ave Maria gratia plena dei genitrix', 'Gaude dei ge[n]itrix', 'Ave regina celor[um]', 'Salve stella fulgidissima', 'Ave s[an]c[t]a dei genitrix'. 'O Maria virgo virginis', 'Sancta Maria tu porta paradisi', 'Benedicta filia tua a d[omin]o', 'Ave dei genitrix', 'Salve nostra puerpera ante partum', 'Generosa dei nostril mater', 'Sancta maria veneramur te'; with a Litany (ff. 71v-72v).
ff. 100r-107r: Prayers to the Virgin in Occitan, beginning 'A dompna raina enpeirairitz' (ed. Kastner, 'Prières a la vierge', 1907).
ff. 107r-108v: Gautier de Coinci, Miracles de Nostre Dame, II Priere 37, Prayer of Theolphilus: 'Domna resplandens reina gloriosa' in Occitan.
ff. 109r-112v: The Seven Sorrows and Seven Joys of the Virgin in Occitan, beginning 'Dossa domina. Las vii angoisas'.
ff. 113r-138v: Liber divini amoris or 'Donat spirituel', in Occitan, beginning, 'Cor sain, per quet'.
ff. 138v-139r: De divina impletione in Occitan, beginning, 'Dieus ditz e ditz que el umple lo cel e la terra'.
ff. 139r-140r: Dix commandements d'amour in Occitan, beginning, 'Arma que desire fort amor deu saber que .x. so li comandamen damor';
ff. 140r-142r: Vingt-quatre privileges damour in Occitan, beginning, 'Le premier prevelegi que amors empetra ab Dieu';
ff. 142r-144r: De l'Amour supreme in Occitan, beginning, 'Amors que pod tot cant es'.
ff. 144r-146v: Dulcis Jesu Memoria in Occitan, beginning, 'La memoria de Nostre Senhor'.
ff. 147r-147v: De divina consideratione' in Occitan, beginning, 'Qui mais coscira de Dieu'.
ff. 147v-149r: De respectione summi boni in Occitan, beginning ' Li regart de Celui'.
ff. 149r-166v: Scala divini amoris in Occitan, beginning 'Ad honor et a Gloria de la doussa amor de dieu'.
ff. 167r-v : A Commendation of Souls beginning with a Litany of the Dead, in Latin.
ff. 168r-171v: Prayers in Latin prose and verse, beginning with the prayer for the dying, 'Profiscere a[n]I[m]a [Crist]iana de hoc mu[n]do';
ff. 172-213v: Antiphons for Vespers of the Dead in Latin, some with musical notation, beginning 'Placebo domino in regione vivoru[m]'.
ff, 214r-224r: Office for Corpus Christi, in Latin,
ff. 225r-230r :Penitential Psalms in Latin
ff. 230r-232v: A Franciscan Litany in Latin.
ff. 233r-237v: Prayers in Latin invoking saints including Eparchius of Angouleme, Louis of Toulouse, Katherine, Margaret, Agnes, Ceclia, Clare, Mary Magdalen, Eufrasia and Helen.
ff. 237v-270v: Hours of the Passion in Latin, beginning 'Domine labia m[e]a ap[er]ies'.
ff. 270v-286v: Prayers in Occitan addressed to Christ, beginning, 'Dos senher ihesu crist qui pal vostre sanht placer', followed by 'Oratio de mati' (f. 274v)
ff. 286v-287r: Prayers in Latin, beginning 'Gracias ago'.
ff. 288r-321v: Eight chants in Latin, including 'Vernans viridarium' (f. 288r); 'Salve regina glore Maria (f. 291r); 'Audi mirabilia que sedes' (f. 293v); 'Ave stella matutina' (f. 296v); 'Gaude virgo graciosa (f. 299r); 'Ad Summe matris curiam (f. 301r); 'Strips (sic) Jesse de gremio foret' (f. 304v); 'Salve lignum preciosum' (f. 306v); 'Salve virgo singularis' (f. 308v); ' Descendit ab arce patris (f. 310v); 'Carmen nove melodie' (f. 314r); 'Salve dulcis memorie Maria mater' (f. 317v) (see Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue, I, (1906) p.. 255).
ff. 322r-323v: Added prayers in Occitan, beginning 'Dossa domina', repeating the 'Seven Sorrows' on ff. 109r-112v .
ff. 323v-325r: Six added prayers in Latin, the first three beginning '[B]enignissime pat[er]'.
ff. 323v-328r: Prayers of St Augustine in Latin added in a 17th century hand, beginning, 'Oratio[n]ez infra ....[com]posuit beatus augustinus'.
ff. 11v, 52v-53v and 287v are blank.
Decoration:
5 large historiated initials in colours and gold extending to form a partial border (ff. 43r, 214r, 225r, 237v, 288r).
31 other smaller historiated initials in colours and gold with faces, extending to form a partial border (ff. 19r, 98r, 109r, 168v, 172r, 174v, 177r, 188v, 196r, 196v, 200r, 214v, 215r, 216r, 221r, 222v, 228r, 234v, 235r, 235v, 236r, 239v, 241r, 242v, 244r, 248v, 260r, 265r, 270r, 271r, 287r).
Decorated initials in colours and gold extending to form a partial border; many with knights jousting, hybrids, dragons, animals and birds. Musical notation on red four-line staves (ff. 172v-213v) or on red five-line staves (ff. 288r-321v). Rubrics in gold. Small initials in blue with red penwork decoration or in gold with purple penwork decoration. Paraphs in blue or gold. Line-fillers in blue or pink and white.
The subjects of the images and marginalia are:
f. 43r: A Franciscan nun kneeling before the Virgin and Child at the beginning of the Ave Maria in French.
f. 76r: A face in an initial with foliage growing out if its mouth.
f. 89r: A male hybrid creature at the beginning of a prayer in Latin, 'O beata Dei'.
f. 97r: A face in an initial; a goat, rabbit, dog and bird in the border.
f. 214r: A cleric with tonsure offers the host (perhaps the last rites) to a Franciscan nun who is cradled on her bed by a fellow nun; an archer shoots an arrow at a bird in the border.
f. 225r: Christ enthroned showing his wounded hands; a rabbit, a dog and an archer shooting at rabbits in the border.
f. 237v: Christ displays a wound in his side to a Franciscan nun, in the Hours of the Passion; jousting knights with shields bearing heraldic motifs, birds and a rabbit in the border.
f. 288r: St Katherine with a wheel hands a scroll to a kneeling Franciscan friar, at the beginning of the chant, 'Vernans viridarium'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001984014
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001984014
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100177809622.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French, Old
Latin
Occitan - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 115 x 80 mm (text space: 80 x 55 mm).
Foliation: ff. 328 (+ 5 unfoliated paper and 2 parchment leaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment leaves after f. 244 + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after ff. 287 and 321 + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic, written below the top line.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Périgueux, Southern France.
Provenance:
Probably made for the Franciscan nun depicted in several of the initials; the Litany (ff. 230r-231v) includes St Francis, St Dominic and St Claire; prayers include feminine forms (e.g., 'mihi peccatrice' (f. 261r)). Attributed to the Périgueux region as St Front follows Sts Peter and Paul in the Franciscan litany (see Hugues-Hugues, Manuscript Music (1906), I, 255). The figures on horseback in a bas-de-page scene (f. 237v) wear heraldic surcoats, and although damaged the arms have been identified by Stones as perhaps belonging to the Counts of Périgord (Stones, 'Stylistic Attribution' (2006), n. 74).
Added prayers in various hands in Latin and in Provencal French, using feminine forms (ff. 1r-11r; 322r-329v).
Purchased by the British Museum from Payne & Foss, 23 July 1842 for £5 5s, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), 1842, p. 106.
Paul Meyer, 'Notice du MS. Egerton 945 du Musee Britannique', Bulletin de la Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1(1881), 44-72.
Léon-Émile Kastner, 'Prières à la Vierge en provençal', Revue des langues romanes, 50, (1907), 222-36 [edition of the text on ff. 100-107].
Clovis Brunel, Bibliographie des manuscrits littéraires en ancien provençal, Société de publications romanes et françaises, 13 (Paris: Librairie E. Droz, 1935), no. 16.
Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), I, p. 255.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 6.
Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music, 11th - Early 14th Century, ed. by Gilbert Reaney, Répertoire international des sources musicales, BIV 1 (Munich: G. Henle, 1966), pp. 498-501.
Bryan Gillingham, 'British Library MS Egerton 945: Further Evidence for a Mensural Interpretation of Sequences', Music & Letters, 61 (1980), 50-59.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), p. 458.
Peter Ricketts, 'A Woman's Poem: The Priere de Theophile in Occitan', in L'offrande du coeur: medieval and early modern studies in honour of Glynnis Cropp, ed. by by Margaret Burrell and Judith Grant (Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury University Press , 2004), pp. 87-95 [edition of the text on ff. 107r-108v]
Katherine Duys, 'Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame: Manuscript list', in Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, music and manuscripts ed. by Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), Appendix 1, pp. 345-66 (pp. 348, 351, 355, 361-62, n. 40, 377, no. 11).
Alison Stones, 'Illustrated Miracles de Nostre Dame manuscripts listed by Stylistic Attribution', in in Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, music and manuscripts ed. by Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), Appendix IV, pp. 377, 393, n. 74).
Alison Stones, Gothic Manuscripts, 1260-1320, 4 vols(London: Harvey Miller, 2014), Part 1, vol 1, Part 2, vol 1, pp. 281-85, no VIII-20, Part 2, vol 2, p. 549; ills. 589-95, pl. 108.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)