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Add MS 38664
- Record Id:
- 032-002057976
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002057976
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x000279
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 38664
- Title:
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Vie de St Margaret and Miracles of the Virgin
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-3r: La Vie de St Margaret is a unique version of the text, incipit, 'A la deu loenge e a la sue gloire', explicit, 'Ou lun deit deu e la virgine servir. Amen';
ff. 3r-16v: Miracles of the Virgin, here entitled 'Gracial' (f. 3r), are dedicated to Dame Mahaut (f. 3v) and the text states that they were translated from the Latin by Guilleaume Adgar from a Latin 'essamplaire' in the library of St Paul's Cathedral. Numbers 10-22 and the dedication are also in Egerton MS 612, though they are in different order. Incipit, 'Mut fet bien ki sun sens despent', explicit, 'Que turner li puise apleisir am[en]'
Decoration: Initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red or in red with pen-flourishing in blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002057976
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002057976
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 16 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_38664 (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: 225 x 155 (170 x 130/35).
Layout: written in two or three columns.
Foliation: ff. 16 (+ 2 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end. ff. i-iii are paste-downs on the inside upper binding; f. iv is a parchment flyleaf).
Script: Gothic, written above the top line.
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. 36).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France or England.
Provenance:
Bound before the mid-15th century as the 6th 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)): pencilled modern number '6', (f. 1). The others are 1. unknown; 2. Treatise on the commandments (Princeton manuscript); 3. Gui de Warewic (now Additional 38662); 4. Chanson de Williame (now Additional 38663); 5. Pseudo-Turpin (Additional 40142); 6. Life of St Margaret (the present manuscript); 7. Adgar's miracles of the Virgin (the present manuscript);8. Life of St Catherine (now Additional 40143, ff. 1-6).
Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, Baronet and book collector of Wootton, Derbyshire (b. 1829, d. 1900): his bookplate and coat of arms on the inside upper cover and his sale, Christie's London, 20 May, 1901, lot 598, (other parts sold as lots 99, 404, 565, 566).
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, 'A new manuscript of Adgar's Mary-legends', Romania, 32 (1903), 394-421 (pp. 395-99).
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 (London: British Museum, 1969), pp. 191-92.
Jean Wathelet-William, Recherches sur la Chanson de Guillaume, accompagnées d'une édition, 2 vols (Paris: Université de Liège, 1975), pp. 36-46.
Karl Reichl, 'An Anglo-Norman Legend of Saint Margaret (MS. BM. Add. 38664), Romania, 96 (1975), 53-66.
Vierge et merveille. Les miracles de Notre-Dame narratifs au Moyen Âge, ed. and trans. by Pierre Kunstmann (Paris: Union générale d'éditions, 1981).
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, 'The Apple's Message: some Post-Conquest Hagiographical Accounts of Textual Transmission' in Late-medieval religious texts and their transmission : essays in honour of A.I. Doyle,ed. by A.J. Minnis (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 39-54 (p. 47).
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), nos. 558, 572.
Adrienne Williams Boyarin, Miracles of the Virgin in medieval England: law and Jewishness in Marian legends (Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2010), p. 21.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)