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Add MS 38662
- Record Id:
- 032-002057974
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002057974
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x000277
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 38662
- Title:
- Gui de Warewic (Guy of Warwick)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: The early 13th-century Anglo-Norman verse romance, Gui de Warewic, about the legendary soldier-saint, with a sequel about Rainbrun, son of Guy. Incipit 'Puis cel tens que Deu fu ned' (f. 1r) explicit, 'Que a lui en glorie puissums venir. amen.'(f. 80v).
Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork decoration in brown and green (f. 1r). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour at the beginning of each verse or laisse.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002057974
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002057974
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 80 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_38662 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1225
- End Date:
- 1275
- Date Range:
- 1225-1275
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 220/5 x 160mm (text space: 170 x 110mm).
Layout: written in 2 columns of 40 lines.
Script: Gothic, written above the top line.
Foliation: ff. iv + 80 (+ 2 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end. ff. i-iii are paste-downs inside the upper binding; f. iv is a parchment flyleaf)
Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf-leather with gilt edges. Stamped on the upper and lower board with binder's name, F[rancis] Bedford, (b. 1800, d. 1884) (see C. Ramsden London Bookbinders (Batsford: [n. pub.], 1956), p. 1956), p. 36).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France or England.
Bound before the mid-15th century as the 3rd of ?8 Anglo-Norman romances in the 'Edwardes Manuscript' (see Herbert 'Adgar's Mary-legends' (1906) and Wathelet-William Recherches sur la Chanson de Guillaume (1969)): modern number '(3)', (f. 1r). The contents of the original were probably as follows: 1. unknown; 2. Treatise on the commandments (Princeton MS); 3. Gui de Warewic (the present manuscript); 4. Chanson de Williame (now Additional MS 38663); 5. Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle (now Additional 40142); 6. Life of St Margaret (now Additional MS 38664); 7. Adgar's miracles of the Virgin (French translation); 8. Life of St Catherine (now Additional 40143, ff. 1-6).
Sir Henry Hope Edwardes (b. 1829, d. 1900): Baronet and book collector of Wootton, Derbyshire (b. 1829, d. 1900): his bookplate and coat of arms on the inside cover and his sale, Christie's, 20 May, 1901, lot 565, (other parts sold as lots 99, 404, 566 and 598).
George Dunn (b. 1856, d. 1912), bibliophile and paleographer of Woolley Hall, Berkshire: his bookplate on the inside cover and his notes on f. iv. Bought by the British Musem at his sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 February, 1913, lot 506.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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J.A. Herbert, 'An Early MS of Gui de Warwick', Romania, 35 (1906) pp. 68-81.
Gui de Warewic, Roman du XIIIe siecle, ed. by Alfred Ewert, 2 vols (Paris: Edouard Champion, 1932) [an edition of the text].
M. Dominica Legge, Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), pp. 162-171 [on the text].
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 (London: British Museum, 1969), pp. 189-90.
Judith Weiss 'The Auchinleck Manuscript and the Edwardes Manuscripts', Notes and Queries, 16.12 (December 1969) pp. 444-46.
Jean Wathelet-William, Recherches sur la Chanson de Guillaume, accompagnées d'une édition, 2 vols (Paris: Université de Liège, 1975), pp. 31, 38-46.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), nos. 79r, 154.
Maria Careri, 'Membra disiecta. I mss. di Londra, BL, Add. 38662 (Gui de Warewic), 38663 (Chanson de Guillaume) e 50142 (Pseudo-Turpin)', Cultura neolatina, 62 (2002), pp. 211-28.
Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor, ed. by Alison Wiggins and Rosalind Field, Studies in Medieval Romance (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007), pp. xii, 2, 10, 18-19, 30-33, 38-41, 46, 56, 58 (MS E).
Boeve de Haumtone and Gui de Warewic: two Anglo-Norman romances, translated by Judith Weiss (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008), p. 12, 21.
Carol E. Harding, 'Dating Gui De Warewic: A Re-Evaluation', Notes and Queries, 56.3 (Oxford: 2009), 333-335).
Ivana Djordjevic, 'Saracens and Other Saxons: Using, Misusing and Confusing Names in Gui de Warewic and Guy of Warwick' in The Exploitations of Medieval Romance, ed. by Laura Ashe, Ivana Djordjevic and Judith Weiss (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 28-42 (p. 29, n. 5).
Hannah Weaver, 'A Tool for Exemplary Pastoral Care: Three Booklets of the Edwardes Manuscript in Context', Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 2.2, (2017), 296-327.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)