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032-002027695

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Title:

Christine de Pizan, Les Enseignemens Moraux; moral and spiritual poems in French

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-3v: 'Instruction et doctrine a bien vivre et mourir' (printed in the Oeuvres Poetiques de Guillaume Alexis Prieur de Bercy, ed. by Arthur Piaget and Emile Picot, 3 vols, Societe des Anciens Textes Francais (Paris: 1536).

ff. 4r-5v: 'Contre aulcuns exces qui se commettent chascun jour a boire et manger' (Against some excesses in food and drink that are committed each day).

ff. 6r-9r: 'Touchant les exces qui se commettent a manger en plusieurs viandes' (Involving excessesconnected with eating several different foods).

ff. 9r-v: 'Dictum de la mort Contre toutes delices et plaisirs mondains'.

ff. 10r-v: 'Enseignement utile et prouffitable'.

f. 10v: 'Regime tres utile pour chascun'.

ff. 10v-11r: 'Bon enseignement utile et prouffitable.'

ff. 11r-v: 'Les Imperfections du corps humain' (in a slightly different form, listed as 'Lez Enfermetez du corps', by Arlima in 'Pierre D'Ailly' (b. 1351, d.1420), Chancellor of the University of Paris; and in Lansdowne MS 380, f. 42); printed in the Oeuvres Poetiques de Guillaume Alexis Prieur de Bercy, ed. by Arthur Piaget and Emile Picot, 3 vols, Societe des Anciens Textes Francais (Paris: 1536).

ff. 11v-12r: 'Devost rondeau sur le crucifix: Dueil our plaisir' (Sinclair (1988) no. 5766).

ff. 12r-12v: 'Contre les miseres et abuz de ce monde miserable'.

f. 12v: 'Paroles dignes de grand Recordation touchant le crucifix' (printed in the Oeuvres de Clement Marot (Lyon, 1554)).

ff. 13r-v: 'Dictum sur le Jugement'.

f. 13v: 'Pour celluy qui a charge de Recevoir bailler et delivrer argent. descharges et acquietz'.

ff. 14r-16r: 'Des femmes gloire et triumphe' (The Glory and Triumph of Women): a poem praising all women through the Virgin Mary:

ff. 16r-19r: 'Des dames honneur etmagnificence' (The Honour and Magnificence of Women), a poem comparing women to afertile garden, a sweet pasture, a sea ofpleasures etc.

ff. 19v-21v: 'Des femmes et dames', a series of rhyming couplets on earthly riches enjoyed by men, concluding that the joys of a wife are superior.

ff. 22r-23r: 'Comment nostre premiere mere Eveparle de noblesse et vertu' (How our first Mother Eve Speaks of the Nobility of Virtue).

ff. 23r-24r: 'Questions morales'; 'Rondeau contre le Destractement mal parlant et mesdisant sur ??? aultony (printed in Les Oeuvres de Jean Marot (Paris: Coustelier, 1723).

ff. 24r-34r: Christine de Pizan, Les Enseignemens Moraux, a poem in 113 verses of four lines, with the rubric: 'Ensuyvent les beaulx dictz et enseigneme[n]s de la saige Christine a son filz: qui sont bie[n] a noter a toutes gens voula[n]s v[er]tueusem[en]t vivre'.

ff. 34r-35r: 'Devote contemplation sur la Tresexcellente beaulte gestes forme et figure estans au precieux corps de nost[re] S[eigneur] Jesuchrist' (Sinclair (1988) no. 6432).

ff. 35r-37r: 'Stabat mater dolorosa' inFrench (Sinclair (1988) no. 5945)

f. 37r: 'Tresdevote oraison a madame de pitie'.

ff. 38r-41v: Added prayer in a larger script, 'Devote oraison a n[ost]re seign[eu]r ih[es]u christ'. (Sinclair (1988) no. 5710).

Decoration:

An ink drawing of a skull (f. 9r). Decorated initials in black ink at the beginning of each text or verse. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1460

End Date:

1520

Date Range:

late 15th century or early 16th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment (ff. 2-37); paper (ff. 38-41).

Dimensions: 270 x 190 mm (text space: 190 x 130 mm).

Foliation: ff. 41 (f. 1 is a paper flyleaf + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house; green morocco.

Custodial History:

Origin:France.Provenance:A note in an 18th- or 19th-century hand on the upper flyleaf (f. 1r): 'Cet ouvrage est d’une grande naiveté'. This is followed by a table ofcontents that omits Christine’s Enseignements. A further note in a 19th-century hand (f. 1v): 'Itwould be superfluous to subjoin any comments upon the productions of Christine de Pisewhich have already occupied the attention of the learned. The present volume contains Enseignemens moraux, some pieces hardly known, and the manuscript is in the most clean and perfect state.'Purchased by the British Museum at Puttick's, 24 August 1848, lot 859.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 17.

Oeuvres poétiques de Christine de Pisan, ed. by Maurice Roy, 3 vols (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1886-96; repr. New York: Johnson, 1965), III, pp. 27-44.

Norbert H. Wallis, Anonymous French Verse. An anthology of fifteenth century poems collected from manuscripts in the British Museum (London:University Press, 1929), pp. xx, xxi (ff. 9, 24).

Keith V. Sinclair, French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages: A Bibliographic Manuscript Guide, Second Supplement (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1988), nos 5710, 5766, 5945, 6432.

Elisabeth Schulze-Busacker, 'Christine de Pizan, Les Enseignemens moraux', ” in Plaist vos oïr bone cançon vaillant?: Mélanges offerts à François Suard, ed. by Dominique Boutet, Marie-Madeleine Castellani, Françoise Ferrand and Aimé Petit, 2 vols (Lille: Université Charles-de-Gaulle, 1999), II, pp. 831-44.

Christine Reno, 'Christine de Pizan's Enseignemens moraux: Good Advice for Several Generations' (Vassar College, 2005), 1- 15 (pp. 9-10, 14, 15), on the website, 'Christine de Pizan: The Making of the Queen's Manuscript' (University of Edinburgh, 2015), at http://www.pizan.lib.ed.ac.uk/morauxnov05.pdf [accessed 30.09.22].

Karen Fresco, 'Les Enseignements moraux de Christine de Pizan dans l’ordre des textes d’un recueil pieux du XVe siècle (BnF, fr. 1181)', La mise en recueil des textes médiévaux, 16 (2007), pp. 293-308, online at https://journals.openedition.org/babel/712 (para. 23, 24, n. 20) [accessed 30.09.22].

Karen Fresco,, 'The place of Christine de Pizan's Enseignemens moraulx in Paris, BnF fr. 1551', in Christine de Pizan, une femme de science, une femme de lettres, éd. by Juliette Dor, Marie-Élisabeth Henneau et Bernard Ribémont, Études christiniennes,10 (Paris: Champion, 2008), pp. 289-303 [on the text].

Pierre d'Ailly, 'Les Enfermetez du Corps', Arlima: Archives de litterature du Moyen Age, ed by Laurent Brun (updated 2022), online at https://www.arlima.net/no/1435 [accessed 30.09.22].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Christine de Pizan [da Pizzano], 1364-c 1430,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121033731

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1868): 'COLLECTION of French poems of Christine de Pisan and others. Vellum, XVth century. Folio.'