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Record Id:

032-002087393

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032-002087393

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ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x00031d

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ark:/81055/vdc_100057739175.0x000001

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Add MS 15606

Title:

Anthology of religious and didactic texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

Religious and didactic poems and prose texts in Burgundian French:

First section:

ff . 2r-5r: Calendar;

ff. 6r-17v: De David li prophecie, an allegorical battle between the vices and virtues

ff. 18r-35r: Eructavit, a rhyming paraphrase of Psalm 45, composed in 1180 for 'Madame de Champaigne', i.e. Marie de Champagne (d. 1198), referred to here as 'a gentil suer ou roi de France' (f. 34r);

ff. 35r-36r: Prose treatise on the Mass, beginning: 'C'est ci l'antrée de la mosse [messe], comant l'an doit oir mosse';

This section ends with the rubric, 'Explicit liber de david la p[ro]phicie'.

Second section, on the lives of Mary and Jesus, consisting of Wace's poem, Conception with other texts interpolated:

ff. 37r-38v; Wace, Conception, part 1;

ff. 38v-42v: Roman de Fanuel, a fictional prologue to the life of Mary, with details of her ancestors;

ff. 43r-50v: Wace, Conception, part 2, with the following text interpolated;

ff. 47v-48r, 49r-v, 50v-58v: Histoire de Marie et de Jesus;

ff. 58v-77r: Passion des Jongleurs, with the rubric, 'De jesucri[s]t li passions';

ff. 77r-81r; Wace, Conception, part 5;

ff. 81r-87r: St Paul's vision of Hell, with the rubric 'Des poignes danfer';

ff. 87v-97r: Prayers in verse including 'Salut dou s[a]nc et dou cors jesu cri[s]t' (f. 87v), 'De nostre dame' (f. 88v), 'De jesu crist '(x 2) (ff. 89r, 89v), 'Ave Jesu, Beausire, qui tot peuz jutisier' (Sinclair, 2499) (f. 90r), 'Damedex nostre pe[re]s' (f. 90v),

ff. 97v-100r: The seven Penitential Psalms in French, preceded by the rubric (f.. 97r), 'Tornez ces foillor si troverex les vii salmes an romant mo[l]t biem';

ff. 100r-107v: Bible de Seigneur Hugue de Berzé, with the rubric, 'Pour faire larme saine';

ff. 107v-110r: Le dit de l'unicorne, with the rubric, 'Des bestelotes moralite';

ff. 110r-113v: Dou pechié de l'orguiel laissier;

ff. 113v-118r: Adam de Suel, a French translation of Cato, with the rubric 'Si fait des ii chevaliers';

ff. 118r-122r: Doctrinal sauvage, with the rubric 'Ansoignema[n]s de dotrine'

ff. 122r-124r: 'Pour chatoier les orguilloz';

ff. 124r-127r: Quinze signes de la fin du monde, with the rubric, 'Des XV signez aez memore';

ff. 127r-130r: De la plure chante l'estoire;

ff. 130r-140v: Vie de Saint Denis in prose;

ff. 140v-152r: Dit de Guillaume d'Angleterre, a hagiographical romance of the late 13th or early 14th century;

ff. 152r-156r: Li livres de sapience;

f. 156r-v: Cloistre espirituel;

ff. 157r-158r: Gloria, Credo and the beginning of St John's Gospel in Latin;

ff. 158r-159v: Form of confession in French;

(ff. 160-162 were removed from the front of the manuscript and inserted at the end)

ff. 160r-161r: Paraphrase of 'Eructavit';

ff. 161r-v: Vie de Saint Denis, a second copy (imperfect at the end).

Decoration:

Calendar, rubrics and initials in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

A parchment codex

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Languages:

French

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1340

Date Range:

Early 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 255 x 195mm (text space: 230 x 160mm).

Layout: 2 columns of 31 lines.

Foliation: ff. 1* +162 (+ 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end. ff. 1and 1* are parchment paste-downs).

Collation: i³(ff. 2-5), ii-iv⁸ (ff. 6-29), v⁶(ff. 30-35), vi⁹ (ff. 36-44), vii-xx⁸ (ff. 45-156), xxi⁴⁺²(ff. 157-162). Quire numbering in the lower margins: quires ix to xiii are numbered 'IIII' to 'VIII' and quires xvi to xx are numbered 'XI' to 'XV'.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1976.

Custodial History:

Origin: France, N. E. (Burgundy).

Provenance:

Libraire Mottley, booksellers of Paris, notes on the contents in French on two paper paste-downs to a front flyleaf (ff. 1, 1*); bought from them by Thomas Rodd, booksellers of London in ?1845 (see Paul Meyer, 'Un MS. Bourguignon' (1877)).

Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 8 November 1845.

Information About Copies:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.

Publications:

The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), pp. 32-33.

Paul Meyer, 'Notice sur un ms bourguignon (Musée britannique Addit 15606) suivie de pièces inédites', Romania, 6, (1877),1-46.

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. 757-60, II (1893), pp. 413-15, 707-08,

T. Atkinson Jenkinsons, Eructavit. An Old French Metrical Paraphrase of Psalm XLIV (Dresden: Gesellschaft fur Romanische Literatur, 1909, p. xxx and passim.

W. Heist, 'Four Old French Versions of the Fifteen signs before the Judgement', Mediaeval Studies, 15 (1953), 187-98, [on the text].

Keith Sinclair, French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages: A Bibliographic Manuscript Guide (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1979), no. 2499.

Jean Blacker, Glynn Burgess and Amy Ogden, Wace, The Hagiographical Works: The 'Conception Nostre Dame' and the Lives of St Margaret and St Nicholas (Leiden: Bril, 2013), p. 14, n. 4.

Maureen B. M. Boulton, Sacred Fictions of Medieval France (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2015), p. 299.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Champagne, Marie, Countess consort of Champagne, called Marie of France, princess and wife of Henry I, Count of Champagne, 1145–1198
Wace, Robert, Poet, 1110 - after 1174

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1850):

'A COLLECTION of early Norman-French poems, and tracts in prose, viz. : - A calendar, with entries of Saints' days, f. 1 ;-" De David le prophecie," a rhyming poem, in lines of eight syllables, in two parts, relating to the heavenly Jerusalem and Christ's kingdom, as prophesied in Ps. xlv. Beg. " Or m'antandez un pou, signor." It is stated to have been composed in the year 1180, and is addressed, apparently, to ' Madame de Champaigne,' who is alluded to at the close of the poem [f. 33, col. 2,1. 13], as 'la gentil suer lou roi de France,' meaning Marie, daughter of Louis VII. of France, and wife of Henri I., Count of Champagne, who died in 1198, f. 5 ;-" L'antrée de la mosse [messe], comant l'an doit oir mosse," in prose, f. 34;-Poem, by ' Maistre Gace' [Wace], on the institution of the feast of the Conception of the Holy Virgin, by William the Conqueror, and the legend of St. Anne, written in lines of eight syllables, f. 36;-" Des poignes d'anfer," a poem, in Alexandrine metre, of the Vision of St. Paul of the pains of Purgatory ; in a different version from that by Adam de Ros. Beg. " Beau soignor, et vos, dames, faites que l'on vos ohie," f. 80;-" Salut dou sanc et doll cors Jesu Crit," a hymn in eight syllable verse, f 86 b. ;-Hymns to the Virgin, and Jesus Christ, f. 87 b. ;- A poem, in Alexandrine metre, upon the power of the devil over souls ; and the answers to be given to his temptations. Beg. " Dame dex nostre peres ovra mout saigement," f. 89 b. ;-The seven penitential psalms, in Alexandrine verse, f. 96 b. ;-" Por faire l'arme sauve," a poem upon the vices of the age, generally known under the title of La Bible de Hugue, Seignor de Berze, whose name is here written, Freres Hugues de Varze, f. 99 ; - "Des bestelotes moralité, " a moral fable, in eight-syllable verse. Beg. " Mout par est foz ciz qui antant," f. 106 b.;-" Dou péchie d'orguel laissier," a tale of two knights, in eight-syllable verse. Beg. .. Frainche gent, duce et debonaire," f. 109; - Cato's moral distichs, in eight-syllable verse, by 'Adams li Cloz,' as the author names himself, at the end. Beg. " Sei.nor, ains que ie vos commant," f. 112 b.; in another early copy, Ms. Harl. 4333, f. 113 b., he is named ' Adans li Clers;' and in a third, the authorship is given to Macé de Troies. By other writers, the author is named Adam de Suel, and Adam de Guienci. [See De la Rue. Essais sur les Bardes, tom. iii. p. 150; P. Paris, Manuscrits Fr., tom. vi. p. 342, and Hist. Litt. de la Fr., tom. xviii. p. 827.] -A didactic poem in Alexandrine metre, intitled, Ansoignemans de dotrine." Beg. " Soignor, or escoutez, que Dex vos benohie," f. I 18. [Another copy occurs in Ms. Eg. 745, f. 206, under the title " De Doctrinal le sauvage, f. 118."]-Poem on the vices of the age, intitled " Por chatoier les orguilloz," f 122 ;-" Des xv. signez aez mémoire," a poem on the xv. Tokens of the day of Judgment, f. 124;-" De la plure chante l'estoire," a religious poem, f. 127;-" Des Apostres qui anoncient la foi nostre Signour Jesu Crit," a Life of S. Denys, Bishop of Paris, confounded with S. Denys the Areopagite, abridged from that written by Hilduinus, Abbot of St. Denys; in prose, f. 130 ;-Poetical romance of William, King of England, a fabulous monarch. Beg. " Por recorder un dit sui ci endroit venuz," f. 140b. The subject and general outline of the story agree with the poem of Chrestien de Troye, intitled ' Guillaume Roi d'Engleterre'[analysed in the Hist. Litt. de la Frane, tom. xv. p. 221]; but the present is an independent version, and written in a different, viz., Alexandrine, metre. It must have been composed after the year 1297, as S. Louis of France is mentioned, who was canonised in that year;-" Li Livres de Sapience;" moral reflexions from the scriptures and elsewhere, in prose, f. 152 ;-" Li salmons de cloistre espirituel, qui doit estre en chascune arme, et vient en moralité au cloistre materie," in prose, f 156;-The Gloria in excelsis, the Creed, and the commencement of St. John's Gospel, in Latin, f. 137 ;-Form of confession, in French, f. 158 ;-Concluding portion of a second copy of the paraphrase of the 45th Psalm, described above, f. 160;-Commencement of a second copy of the Life of St. Denys, described above, f. 161. On vellum, written at the beginning of the xivth century. Quarto. [15,606.]'