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Record Id:

032-002091593

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032-002091593

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Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 21218

Title:

Roman de Philomena

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-3v: A spurious will of Charlemagne in Latin, with the rubric, 'Testamentum Karoli magni condam regis francie', dated 811;

f. 4r- The Roman de Philomena, or Notre Dame de la Grasse, an account of Charlemagne's campaigns in Carcassone and Narbonne and the foundation of the Abbey of La Grasse, part of the Gestes de Charlemagne, attributed to Philomena, 'lo maistre de la storia' (f. 15). This is the oldest surviving copy of the text, according to Paul Meyer, Recherches sur l'Epopee franc̨aise (1867); there is one other known copy of this text in Occitan, Paris, BnF, ms francais 2232 and two copies in Latin, perhaps translated from the Occitan: Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Pluteus 66, codex 27 and Carcassonne, Bibliotheque municipale, MS 66;

ff. 64r-v: Added signatures of consuls of Narbonne from 1609 to 1634 and a note on the derivation of the name of Narbonne.

Decoration:

Initials and paraphs in red or blue. Rubrics and line-fillers in red. Catchwords with penwork decoration in the shape of fish (e.g., f. 47v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Container:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

A parchment codex

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Languages:

Occitan, Old
Provençal, Old

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 245 x 160mm (text space: 200 x 110).

Foiation: ff. 64 (f. 1 is an added paper leaf + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation: i¹⁰(ff. 2-11), ii-v¹²(ff. 12-59), vi⁵ (ff. 60-64).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Red leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: France, S. (?Narbonne)

Provenance:

Signatures of consuls of Narbonne from 1609 to 1634 and a note on the derivation of the name of Narbonne in a 17th-century hand (f. 64r-v).

A note on the contents in French in an 18th-century hand on an added paper leaf (f. 1r-v).

Edwin Tross (b.1822, d.1875), publisher and bookseller of Paris; bought from him by the British Museum, 12 Jan 1856.

Publications:

Paul Meyer, Recherches sur l'Epopee franc̨aise (Paris: A. Franck,1867), p. 27, n. 1.

The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1854-1860 (London: British Museum, 1875), pp. 341-42.

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. 596-98.

Gesta Karoli Magni ad Carcassonam et Narbonam:Lateinischer Text und provenzalische Übersetzung mit Einleitung, ed by Dr. F.Schneegans, Romanische Bibliothek, 15 (Niemeyer: Halle, 1898; repr. Genève, Slatkine Reprints, 1977), [an edition of the text].

Clovis Brunel, Bibliographie des manuscrits littéraires en ancien provençal (Paris: Librairie E. Droz, 1935), no. 14.

Émile Simonnet, 'Le Roman de Notre Dame de Lagrasse', La France latine, 116 (1993), 238-57.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814
Pseudo-Philomena, Historiographer of Charlemagne, fl. 1200-1250

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1875):

'PHILOMENA. Gestes de Charlemagne.Account of the conquest of the cities of Carcassonne and Narbonne, and of the foundation of the monastery of Notre Dame de la Grasse, known as the Romance of Philomena, who is here called at f. 15 "lo maistre de la storia," and in the Latin translation, the "juratus scriptor" of Charlemagne. Provençal. It was translated into Latin, at the desire of Bernard, Abbat of La Grasse, by Gulielmus Paduanus (see Bandini Cat. Bibl. Med. Laurent. vol. II. p. 799), to whom the writer of a note at the commencement of the present volume and the S^r. Besse, in his "Histoire des Dues, etc., de Narbonne" (Paris, 1660), attribute the authorship of the work. It is preceded by "Testamentum Karoli magni," f. 2, and "Origo Karoli magni," f. 4. At the end are some signatures of "Consuls" of Narbonne, 1619-1634. Vellum; XIVth cent. Octavo.'