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Add MS 15821
- Record Id:
- 032-002093511
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002093511
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x000251
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15821
- Title:
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Pierre Bersuire, Ovidius moralizatus
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 4r-93v: Ovidius moralizatus, a Latin moralisation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (imperfect owing to a number of lacunae and lost quires). It forms the fifteenth book of the Reductorium morale (version A1), by Pierre Bersuire (b. c. 1290, d. 1362). In the rubric it is attributed to the English Dominican Thomas Waleys (fl. 1318-1349): 'Incipiunt moralitates ovidii methamorphosen etiam de formis figuris et ymaginibus deorum que variis modis videlicet literaliter moraliter hystorialiter necnon spiritualer exponuntur edite a magistro Thoma Waleys anglico sacre pagine doctore de ordine predicatorum' (f. 4r). The text begins 'A veritate quidem auditum avertent ad fabulas convertentur' (2 Timothy 4: 4) (f. 4r).
Ovidius moralizatus is also found in British Library manuscripts Additional 62132 A, Royal 15 C XVI and Harley 1847.
Decoration:
Large red and blue puzzle initial 'A' (f. 4r). Small blue initials with red pen flourishing and red initials with blue pen flourishing. Paragraph marks in red and blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002093511
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-002093511
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15821 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 150 x 100 mm (text space: 95 x 55 mm).
Foliation: ff. 196 (plus one unfoliated blank parchment leaf after f. 3 and five unfoliated blank parchment leaves after f. 193; there are three unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Clairvaux).
Provenance:
The Cistercian Abbey of St Mary, Clairvaux: 15th-century shelfmark: 'T .40.' (f. 193v); no. T 40 in the inventory compiled in 1472 under the direction of Pierre de Virey, abbot of Claivaux (fl. 1471-1496); possibly no. N b V? (1367a) in the inventory compiled c.1520-1521 under the direction of Mathurin de Cangey, monk, humanist, and probably librarian of the abbey (fl. 1488-1521) (La Bibliothèque de l'abbaye de Clairvaux (1979), I, p. 276, 764). An older (?) shelfmark is visible at the bottom of f. 4r.
16th-century inscription: 'codex authori coævus initio 13' sæculi exaratus quo floruit Thomas Waleys seu gallensis' (f. 4r).
Purchased by the British Museum from Guillemot, Paris, 28 May 1846.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to then Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1846-1847 (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1864), p. 35.
Charles Samaran, Pierre Bersuire: prieur de Saint-Éloi de Paris (Paris: Imprimerie nationale 1962), p. 180.
J. Engels, 'L'édition critique de l'Ovidius moralizatus de Bersuire', Vivarium, 9 (1971), 19-24.
La Bibliothèque de l'abbaye de Clairvaux, du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle, ed. by André Vernet, Jean-Francois Genest and Jean-Paul Bouhot, 2 vols (Pais: Editions du CNRS, 1979-1997), I, pp. 34 n. 11, 276, 764.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)