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Add MS 32125
- Record Id:
- 032-002025870
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002025870
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000054.0x00023f
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 32125
- Title:
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Wace, Roman de Brut; the Anglo-Norman Description of England; Estoire del Saint Graal; Robert de Boron, prose Merlin
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains 2 separate items bound together:
ff. 1r-58v, Wace, Roman de Brut, in Anglo-Norman verse (ff. 1r-58r); an extract from the Anglo-Norman Description of England (ff. 58r-v).
ff. 59r-245v, Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002025870", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 32125: Wace, Roman de Brut; the Anglo-Norman Description of England; Estoire del Saint Graal; Robert de Boron, prose Merlin" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "033-002360075", "parent" : "032-002025870", "text" : "Add MS 32125, ff 1-58: Wace, Roman de Brut; Description of England" },{ "id" : "033-002360076", "parent" : "032-002025870", "text" : "Add MS 32125, ff 59-245: Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v)." },{ "id" : "040-002403564", "parent" : "032-002025870", "text" : "Add MS 32125, ff 1r-58v: Wace, Roman de Brut; Description of England" },{ "id" : "040-002403565", "parent" : "032-002025870", "text" : "Add MS 32125, ff 59r-245v: Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v)." }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002025870
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 32125, ff 1-58 : Wace, Roman de Brut; Description of England
Add MS 32125, ff 59-245 : Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v).
Add MS 32125, ff 1r-58v : Wace, Roman de Brut; Description of England
Add MS 32125, ff 59r-245v : Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v).
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 245 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_32125 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
French, Old - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1325
- Date Range:
- 1275-1325
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 170 mm (text space: 215 x 110/20 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 245 (+ 11 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 4 modern paper flyleaves (ff. [i-iv]) at the beginning, 2 paper flyleaves (ff. [v-vi]) before f. 1, 1 paper flyleaf after f. 245, 4 modern paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; rebound in 1971; the leather covers of the old (post-1600) binding are pasted down on the inside front and back covers; the leather spine of the old binding, with the stamped eagle's head crest of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, is pasted to f. [ii] recto.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Manicules and marginal notes throughout, in 15th-century hands.
Sir (Richard) Colt Hoare, second Baronet (b. 1758, d. 1838), landowner and antiquary: his former cover and flyleaves (ff. [v]r and [vi]r inscribed with his name; purchased at his sale, Sotheby's, 8 August 1883, lot 1823.
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- Publications:
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Lestorie des Engles solum la translacion Maistre Geffrei Gaimar, ed. by Thomas Duffus Hardy and Charles Trice Martin, Rolls Series, 91, 2 vols (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888), pp. xxxvi-xxxvii, 278-89 [edition of the 'Description of England' collated with this manuscript].
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1882-1887, ed. by Edward Scott (London: British Museum, 1889), I, p. 79.
Le Roman de Merlin or the Early History of King Arthur, ed. by H. Oskar Sommer (London: privately printed, 1894), pp. xxiv, xxvi, 1-498 [for an edition of the text in MSS Additional 10292-10294].
The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances, ed. by H. Oskar Sommer, 6 vols (Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1909), vols 1, 2 [collated in the edition as B].
Alexandre Micha, 'Les Manuscrits du Merlin en Prose', Romania, 79 (1958), 78-94 (p. 88).
Robert de Boron, Merlin: Roman du XIIIe siècle, ed. by Alexandre Micha (Geneva: Droz, 1979), pp. xvi, xxi, xxii, xxvi, xxviii-xxvix, xxxiv, xxxviii, xliv [collated in the edition as B].
Alexandre Micha, Étude sur le 'Merlin' de Robert de Boron, Roman du XIIIe siècle, Publications Romanes et Françaises, 151 (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1980), pp. 17 [mis-identified as Add. MS 32625], 27.
Alexander Bell, 'The Anglo-Norman Description of England: An Edition' in Anglo-Norman Anniversary Essays, ed. by Ian Short (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1993), pp. 31-47 (pp. 31-35, 37).
Lesley Johnson, 'The Anglo-Norman Description of England: An Introduction' in Anglo-Norman Anniversary Essays, ed. by Ian Short (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1993), pp. 11-30 (pp. 15-16).
L'Estoire del Saint Graal, ed. by Jean-Paul Ponceau, 2 vols (Paris: Honoré Chapman, 1997), I, pp. x, xxvi, xxxi-xlviii.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), nos 2, 4.
Wace's Roman de Brut, A History of the British: Text and Translation, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies, ed. and translated by Judith Weiss (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002), p. xxvii [collated in the edition as F].
Fanny Bogdanow, 'La Vision d'Histoire Arthurienne selon Robert de Boron', in Fils sans père: Etudes sur le 'Merlin' de Robert de Boron, ed. by Denis Hue, Medievalia, 35 (Orleans: Paradigme, 2000), pp. 51-76 [on the text].
Larry S. Crist, 'Les Livres de Merlin' in Fils sans père: Etudes sur le 'Merlin' de Robert de Boron, ed. by Denis Hue, Medievalia, 35 (Orleans: Paradigme, 2000), pp. 77-87 [on the text].
Roger Middleton, 'Manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England and Wales: Some Books and their Owners' in A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, ed. by Carol Dover (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 219-35 (p. 223).
Jean Blacker, 'Courtly Revision of Wace's Roman de Brut in British Library Egerton MS 3028', in Courtly Arts and the Art of Courtliness: Selected Papers from the Eleventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 29 July-4 August 2004, ed. by Keith Busby and Christopher Kleinhenz (Cambridge: Brewer, 2004), pp. 237-58 (p. 252).
Irene Fabry-Tehranchi, Texte et images des manuscrits de Merlin et de la Suite Vulgate (XIIIe-XVe siècle) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 75, 77, 79.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)