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Add MS 17920
- Record Id:
- 032-002028382
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002028382
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000283
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161502644.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 17920
- Title:
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A collection of works in Occitan
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the following texts:
ff. 2r-6v: 'Dels miracles de Santa Maria Vergena' ( Miracles of the Holy Virgin Mary) and 'Delas vii filhas del diable' (The Seven Daughters of the Devil);
ff. 6v-19v: 'La ystoria de sainh Turpi' (Pseudo-Turpin chronicle), the only known copy in Provençal;
ff. 19v-29v: 'De las meravilhas de la terra de Ybernia', a translation of Philip of Slane, Libellus de description Hiberniae, presented to Pope John XXII by Slane, bishop of Cork, probably in 1324. This was in turn a Latin abbreviation of Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia hibernica).
Two sets of foliation in Roman numerals, show that the leaves that currently make up this manuscript were formerly located between ff. 62 and 63 of Egerton MS 1500.
Decoration:
One puzzle initial (f. 2r). Red or blue initials with decoration in purple or red. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002028382", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 17920: A collection of works in Occitan" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002028382
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002028382
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Add_MS_17920 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Occitan
Provençal, Old - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1325
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 370 x 265 mm (text space: 270 x 190 mm)
Layout: Written in two columns of 50 lines.
Foliation: ff. 29 (f. 1 is a flyleaf with a paper paste-down + 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Re-bound in 1974.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, S. (Avignon)
Provenance:
Two sets of foliation in Roman numerals are continuous with that of Egerton MS 1500 (lxv-lxxxxvi (lower margin) and lxiii-lxxxxiiii (upper margin)), indicating that they were originally part of the same manuscript.
Perhaps associated with the Papal court in Avignon: a dedication to Pope John XXII (f. 19v) was copied from the Latin presentation copy of Philip of Slane, Libellus de description Hiberniae that was kept in the Papal library.
Bought by the British Library from Messrs Boone, booksellers, 8 December, 1849.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 63.
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), I (1883), pp. 592-94.
Clovis Brunel, Bibliographie des manuscrits littéraires en ancien provençal (Paris: Librairie E. Droz, 1935), no. 13.
Wilhelmina. H. Wüstefeld, ‘Le manuscrit British Library Additional 17920 et son contexte socio-culturel’, in Critique et édition de textes. Actes du XVIIème congrès international de linguistique et philologie romanes (Marseilles, 1986), pp. 100-10.
Wilhelmina H. Wüstefeld, ‘Las Merevilhas de la terra de Ybernia. Une traduction occitane et son modèle’, Actes du premier congrès international de l’Association d’Etudes Occitanes (London, 1987), 529-37 (pp. 533-34).
Jean-Pierre Chambon, ‘Remarques sur la patrie de l’auteur du MS. Brit. Mus. Add. 17920 (Brunel Ms 13)’, Revue de Linguistique Romane, 59 (1995), pp. 5-24.
Marco Piccat, La versione occitana dello Pseudo Turpino: ms. Londra B.M. additional 17920 (Tubingen: De Gruyter, 2001).
Peter T. Ricketts, ‘Deux textes en Occitan médiéval du ms. Londres, British Library, Add. 17920, les Miracles de Notre Dame et le Mariage des neuf filles du Diable’, La parola del testo: Studi in onore di Giuseppe E. Sansone, 8.2 (2004),pp. 317-32.
Peter T. Ricketts and Cyril P. Hershon, ‘Las Merevilhas de la terra de Ybernia’, La France latine, 148 (2009), 233–97 [an edition of the text].
Federico Botana, ‘The Making of L’Abreujamen de las estorias', Electronic British Library Journal (2013) no. 16.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)