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Add MS 40732
- Record Id:
- 032-002092576
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002092576
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x000365
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 40732
- Title:
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Gilbert the Hay, The Buike off King Allexander the Conqueroure
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains The Buike off King Allexander the Conqueroure, a translation of the Alexander Romance into Scots heroic couplets by the Scottish poet Gilbert the Hay (b. c. 1397, d. 1465). Gilbert's translation was likely influenced by earlier French sources of the Alexander romance.
The manuscript's original binding is now kept separately as Add MS 40732/1.
Contents:
f. i recto: Added pen-trials and ownership inscriptions in a number of different hands.
f. ii recto: An added title-page.
ff. 1r-282r: Gilbert the Hay, The Buike off King Allexander the Conqueroure, begins ‘That mony hardie knycht of gret renoun…’ ends, ‘Heir endis the buike off King Alexander the conqueroure’, with some repetitions of the text of ff. 263r-264r on ff. 269r-270r, and that of ff. 258v-263r on ff. 270v-273v and confusion in the text between ff. 258v-264r. Some text is lost on f. 275r-v, indicated by a blank space.
ff. iii verso-iv recto: Added pen-trials and ownership inscriptions in a number of different hands.
f. v recto-verso: A fragment of a tract written in Latin, possibly Henry of Ghent (b. 1217, d. 1293), Quodlibet IV. Quaestio 7, formerly part of the manuscript's original binding.
ff. i verso, ii verso, 83v-84r, 264v, 275r, 282v, iii recto and iv verso are blank.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002092576
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002092576
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_40732 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
Scots - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1540
- Date Range:
- Early 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Watermark:
Dimensions: 250 x 195 mm (text space: ff. 1r-52r: 195 x 105 mm, ff. 52v-264v: 200 x 135 mm, ff. 265r-282r: 200 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. iv + 282 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 32 unfoliated paper leaves between f. ii and f. 1 + 1 unfoliated paper stub between ff. 94 and 95 + 21 unfoliated paper leaves between ff. 282 and iii + 1 unfoliated paper leaf between ff. iv and v + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); ff. i-iv are paper flyleaves.
Script: Gothic cursive, written by three scribes: A (ff. 1r-45r), B (ff. 45r-264r) and C (ff. 265r-282r).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding over wooden boards. Original binding removed in 1934. A fragment of a 14th-century manuscript taken from the original binding is attached to a modern flyleaf at the back of the volume (f. v).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Scotland.
Provenance:
Press-marks, 16th century: inscribed, ‘Shelf 28, Number 1; 2 No. 36’ (f. ii recto).
Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy (b. 1545, d. 1631), Scottish landowner and courtier: inscribed, 'Duncan Campbell of glenvrquhie / This buik pertenis onto him etc./ 1579' (f. i recto), 'Duncampbell of glenvrquhie / This buik pertenis onto him etc./ 1581' (f. iii verso) and ''Duncan Campbell of glenvrquhie / This buik pertenis onto him etc./ 1582' (f. iv recto).
Alexander Levingstoun, 16th century: added notes (f. iv verso).
Walter McIlIchreist, 16th century: his name inscribed (f. iii verso).
Robert Campbell, 16th century: his name and signature inscribed (f. iii verso).
James Betheg, 16th century: his name and signature inscribed (f. iii verso).
John Campbell, 16th century: his name and signature inscribed (f. iii verso).
Isobell Mackonoschie: autographs: 17th century(?) (ff. iii verso, iv recto).
Taymouth Castle Library: owned: 19th century.
David Laing (b. 1793, d. 1878), Scottish antiquary: added notes, dated 1831 (ff. 258v-265r, 269r-273v).
Purchased from ‘H. M. Temple’ by the British Museum on 13th January 1923, together with a letter-book of the Marquis of Buckingham (now Add MS 40733) for £75.00.
- Publications:
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M. M. Lascelles, ‘Alexander and The Earthly Paradise in Mediæval English Writings (Continued)’, Medium Ævum, 5: 2 (1936), 79-104 (p. 82).
A Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1921-1925 in the British Museum, (London: British Museum, 1950), pp. 154-55.
The Buik of King Alexander the Conqueror by Sir Gilbert the Hay, ed. by John Cartwright (Scottish Text Society: Aberdeen University Press. 1986-1990), Volumes II-III.
Joanna Martin, ''Of Wisdome and of Guide Governanc’: Sir Gilbert Hay and The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour' in A Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry, ed. by Priscille Bawcutt and Janet Hadley Williams (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 75-88 (p. 75).
David Ashurst, ‘Alexander Literature in English and Scots,’ in A Companion to Alexander in the Middle Ages, ed. by David Z. Zuwiyya (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 255-90.
Emily Wingfield, ‘Ex Libris domini duncani / Campbell de glenwrquhay/ miles’: The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour in the household of Sir Duncan Campbell, seventh laird of Glenorchy', in Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts, ed. by Rhiannon Purdie and Michael Cichon (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2011), pp. 161-174.
Emily Wingfield, ‘The Composition and Revision of Sir Gilbert Hay’s Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour’, Nottingham Medieval Studies, 57 (2013), 247-86.
Emily Wingfield, ‘The Thewis off Gudwomen: Female Advice in Lancelot of the Laik and The Buik of King Alexander the Conqueror,’ in Fresche Fontanis: Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland, ed. by Janet Hadley Williams and J. Derrick McClure (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), pp. 85-96 (pp. 92-95).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)