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Harley MS 1321
- Record Id:
- 040-002047150
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047150
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00033b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057738028.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1321
- Title:
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Chansons from the cycles of William of Orange and Aimeri de Narbonne
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Chansons de Geste from the cycles of William of Orange (Guillaume d'Orange): and Aimeri de Narbonne (Aymeri de Nerbonne)
ff. 4r-38v: Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, Girart de Vienne (Girard de Viane), 5,560 lines, lacking 1 leaf at the beginning that perhaps contained a miniature;
ff. 38v-120v: Aimeri de Narbonne and Narbonnais, 12,850 lines;
ff. 121r-175r: Siége de Barbastre, 8,400 lines;
ff. 176-217v: Guibert d'Andrenas and Mort d'Aimeri, 1,560 lines.
Chansons from these cycles are also found in Royal 20 B xix and Royal 20 D xi .
Single folios are lacking after ff. 3, 191, 217, and 8 folios are lacking after f. 26.
ff. 3 and 218 are medieval parchment flyleaves, originally part of an 11th-century Sacramentary;
ff. 1-2, 219-220 are early modern flyleaves from two French 17th-century charters or chancery manuscripts.
Decoration:
One miniature and two historiated initials in colours with gold of Aimeri kneeling in front of Charlemagne (f. 38v), Aimeri feasting at Narbonne (f. 121r), and Guibert standing beside Aimeri on his death bed (f. 176r). Numerous initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047150", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1321: Chansons from the cycles of William of Orange and Aimeri de Narbonne" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047150 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1321 : Chansons from the cycles of William of Orange and Aimeri de Narbonne - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1321]/040-002047150
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057738028.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1225
- End Date:
- 1275
- Date Range:
- 1225-1275
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 265 x 175mm (text space: 185 x 115mm).
Layout: in two columns of 37-40 lines.
Foliation: f. 220 (ff. 1-3, 218-220 are parchment flyleaves; + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and the end).
Collation: 3+ i6 (ff. 4-9), ii-xii8 (ff. 10-98), xiii10 (ff. 99-108), xiv8 (ff. 109-116), xv4 (ff. 117-120), xvi-xix8 (ff. 121-152), xx6 (ff. 153-159), xxi8 (ff. 160-168), xxii6 (ff. 169-174), xxiii-xxiv8 (175-196), xxv8+5(ff. 197-209), xxvi 8 (ff. 210-217) + 3. Catchwords and quire numbering, cropped away in some places.
Script: Gothic, written above the top line.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. 19th century.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, N.
Provenance:
Nicolas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d. 1721), marquis de Magny, statesman and archaeologist: his book-plate with the legend 'EX BIBLIOTHECA / NICOLAI JOSEPH FOUCAULT / COMITIS CONSISTORIANI' with his arms [sable] a lion rampant, dexter, crowned [argent], as supporters two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (f. 1v; see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 192, bought for Edward Harley possibly through Nathaniel Noel (see Wright and Wright, Diary (1966); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, ‘23 Februarij, 1720/21’ (f. 4r).
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1321.
Harry L. D. Ward and John A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), 1: Harry L. D. Ward (1883), pp. 660-63.
Aymeri de Narbonne, chanson de geste, publiée d'après les manuscrits de Londres et de Paris, ed. by Louis Demaison, Société des Anciens Textes Français, 24 (Paris, Firmin Didot puis Picard, 1887), pp. xxvi-xxix [edition based on this manuscript and others].
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 91 n. 7.
Fanni Bodganow, 'Un nouveau fragment d'Aymeri de Narbonne', Romania, 84 (1963), 380-89.
Guibert d'Andrenas, ed. by Muriel Ott (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004) p. 15.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 62, 155, 394.
William W. Kibler, 'Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, Author of Aymeri de Narbonne?', Speculum, 48.2 (April 1973), 277-92 (p. 277).
'Girart de Vienne' par Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, ed. by Wolfgang van Emden, Société des anciens textes français (Paris: Picard 1977), pp. xxxviii-ix.
Le siège de Barbastre, ed. by Bernard Guidot, Les classiques français du Moyen Âge, 137 (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2000), p. 18.
Keith Busby, Codex and Context: Reading Old French Verse Narrative in Manuscript, Études de langue et littérature française, 221 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002), pp. 383-84, 393, 773.
Guibert D'Andrenas, ed. by Muriel Ott, Les classiques français du Moyen Âge, 147 (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004), p. 15.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)