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Egerton MS 984
- Record Id:
- 032-001984058
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001984058
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x00004b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165164074.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 984
- Title:
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Proceedings of the condemnation trial of Joan of Arc; extracts from Martial d’Auvergne, Les Vigiles du roi Charles VII
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a later copy of the condemnation trial or processus against Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan was put on trial following her capture by the Burgundian army outside the walls of Compiègne on 23 May 1430. Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), Bishop of Beauvais, conducted the trial, which began with a month and a half of procedural investigations. The first public session with Joan took place on 21 February 1431. At the trial’s conclusion, she was condemned as a relapsed heretic and was subsequently burned at the stake in Rouen on 30 May 1431. After the trial ended, Bishop Cauchon ordered two notaries to gather all the documents related to the trial, together with the French interrogations (also known as ‘French minute’), and to translate them into Latin. The result was a text now known as the ‘Trial of Joan of Arc’.
In addition to the trial proceedings, this volume also contains a number of extracts relating to Joan’s life, taken from Les Vigiles du roi Charles VII, a versified French history of the Hundred Years War written by Martial d’Auvergne (b. 1430, d. 1508). The complete text of the Vigiles now survives as Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms français 5054.
The manuscript also contains a list of the bishops of Paris and a selection of epitaphs copied from churches in Paris and Rouen, including that of the theologian Nicholas de Lyra (b. c. 1270, d. 1349), who was buried in the House of the Cordeliers in Paris.
Contents:
f. 1r: Two bookplates belonging to Louis III Le Peletier (b. 1690, d. 1770), Marquis of Rosanbo, and Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1798, d. 1870), Duchess of Berry, and a note relating to the sale of the manuscript in 1837.
f.2v: An added note in French.
ff. 3r-126r: The Trial of Joan of Arc, written in Latin, entitled, ‘In nomine domini, Amen. Incipit processus in causa fidei contra quondam quondam mulierem Johannam vulgariter dictam la pucelle’.
ff. 126v-149v, 152r-157v: Extracts from Les Vigiles du roi Charles VII by Martial d’Auvergne, written in French.
ff. 150r-151r: A list of the bishops of Paris, beginning with St Denis of Paris (d. c. 250/258) and ending with Étienne Poncher (b. c. 1446, d. 1525), written in Latin. A later hand has added the name of Poncher’s successor: François Poncher (b. 1480, d. 1532).
ff. 158r-160v: A set of epitaphs from churches in Paris and Rouen, written in French.
f. 161r: Added ex-libris inscription of Pierre Pithou.
ff. 1v, 2r, 151v and 161v are blank.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001984058
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001984058
- 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_100165164074.0x000001 (opens in a new tab)
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- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1524
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 195 mm (text space: 220/240 x 95/150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 161 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper leaf after f. 2 + 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive; written by a number of different scribes, principally Scribe A (ff. 3r-126r) and Scribe B (ff. 126v-160v).
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house. Brown leather, with the Bridgewater arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France (probably Paris).
Provenance:
Pierre Pithou (b. 1539, d. 1596), French lawyer and scholar: his signature (ff. 3r, 160v), his ex-libris inscription (f. 161r).
Louis III Le Peletier (b. 1690, d. 1770), Marquis de Rosanbo: his bookplate and coat of arms, inscribed, ‘Le Pélétier, prémier président du Parlement de Paris’ (f. 1r).
Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1798, d. 1870), Duchess of Berry, formed part of the library of the Château de Rosny-sur-Seine: her bookplate, inscribed, ‘The Duc de Berry’ (f. 1r); sale of the Rosny library, 20 February 1837, lot 2363; sold for 119 francs to an unknown buyer (see added note, f. 1r; Catalogue de la Riche (1837), p. 209).
Purchased by the British Museum from Payne & Foss, bookseller, on 14 October 1843 for £8 8s (see f. [2*] recto), 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), 1843, p. 98.
Catalogue de la Riche Bibliothèque De Rosny (Paris: Bossange, 1837), p. 209, URL: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t5p84n21w&view=1up&seq=223.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)