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Harley MS 4333
- Record Id:
- 040-002050170
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050170
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000395
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057740199.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4333
- Title:
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Anthology of Moral and Didactic poems and treatises, including works by Gossouin de Metz and Marie de France
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-70r: Gossouin (Gautier) de Metz, L'image du monde, preceded by a prologue with an introduction ending with a dedication to Count Robert d'Artois (d. 1250) and Jacques de Lorraine, Bishop of Metz (d. 1260);
ff. 70r-72v: 'Li Romans de la mort' or De l'unicorne;
ff. 73-96r: Marie de France, Fables, 87 tales with the prologue and epilogue (nos. 85 and 86 are imperfect);
ff. 96r-98r: Huon le Roi de Cambrai, Ave Maria in Old French (Sonet, Répertoire (1956), no. 1233);
ff. 98r-100r: Henri d'Andeli (troubadour and monk of Rouen, fl. 1207-1236), le Dit du Chancelier Philippe, the only known copy of this text;
f. 100r: 'Description d'un écrin merveilleux' (a box of marvels);
ff. 100v-101v: La Canonique des rois or Chronique des rois de France;
ff. 101v-103v: La Chantepleure or Pleurechante, a moral poem against heretics;
ff. 103v-105r: Clerc de Vaudoy (or Voudai), Le dit des droits;
ff. 105r-106r: Doctrinal Sauvage;
ff. 107r-108v: La Paternostre a l'userier;
ff. 109r-110r: 'Credo usurarii' or Credo a l'userier;
ff. 110r-113v: Adam de Suel, Distiques de Caton;
ff. 113v-114r: Evangile de fames or Chastie-musart;
ff. 114r-v: Epistre des femmes or Bien des fames;
ff. 115r-117r: Ordene de chevalerie (imperfect at the end).
A number of the texts are found also in Add MS 15606, another verse collection from early 14th-century Burgundy.
Decoration: Circular diagrams in red and brown in the Image du Monde (ff. 40v-42v). Puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (f. 73r). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours extending in the margins to form partial borders. Coloured initials in red ink.
Catchwords written horizontally. Leaf signatures.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050170", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4333: Anthology of Moral and Didactic poems and treatises, including works by Gossouin de Metz and Marie de France" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050170 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4333 : Anthology of Moral and Didactic poems and treatises, including works by Gossouin de Metz and Marie de France - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4326]/040-002050170
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex, 117 folios
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057740199.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 165 x 115 mm (text space: 130 x 90 mm), written in 2 columns.
Foliation: ff. 117 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: i10 (ff. 1-10), ii-vii8 (ff. 11-58), viii10 + 1(ff. 59-69), ix3(ff. 70-72), x2+5 (ff. 73-79), xi8 (ff. 80-87), xii6 (ff. 88-93), xiii13 (94-106), xiv8 (ff. 107-114), xv6 (ff. 115-[110]).
Script: Gothic, written below the top line.
Binding: Post-1600. BM/BL in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, E. (?Burgundy).
Provenance:
Part of f. 106 has been excised.
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.
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), III (1808), no. 4333.
Paul Meyer, 'Henri d'Andeli et le chancelier Philippe', Romania, 1 (1871), 190-215 (pp. 206-09).
Léopold Hervieux, Les Fabulistes latins, depuis le siècle d'Auguste jusqu'a la fin du moyen age, 5 vols (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1884-96), I, pp. 635-36.
Paul Meyer, 'Le Chastie-Musart d'après le ms. Harléien 4333', Romania, 15 (1886), 603-10.
Paul Meyer, 'L'Image du Monde: redaction du ms. Harléien 4333', Romania, 21 (1892), 481-505.
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. 810-11, II (1893), pp. 298-306.
Jean Sonet, Répertoire ďincipit de prières en ancien français (Geneva: Droz, 1956), no. 1233.
Glynn S. Burgess, Marie de France: an analytical bibliography (London: Grant and Cutler, 1977), p. 11.
Anne-Marie Bouly de Lesdain, 'Les manuscrits didactiques antérieurs au 14e siècle', Bulletin d'information de l'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, 14 (1966), 43-82 (pp. 78-79).
Raoul de Hodenc, Le roman des eles by Raoul de Hodenc and the anonymous Ordene de chevalerie, ed. by Keith Busby, Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 17 (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1983) p. 94, ms H.
Françoise Vielliard, 'Sur la tradition manuscrite des fables de Marie de France', Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, 147 (1989), 371-97 (p. 397).
Richard Trachsler, 'Les fables de Marie de France', Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 44 (2001), 45-63 (p. 63).
'London, British Library Harley ms. 4333', Arlima: Archives de littérature du Moyen-Âge, ed. by Laurent Brun (February 2007) [http://www.arlima.net/index.html] [http://www.arlima.net/mss/united_kingdom/london/british_library/harley/04333.html] [accessed 05 October 2016].
Sara Centili, 'La tradition manuscrite de l’Image du monde: Fortune et diffusion d’une encyclopédie du xiiie siècle' (unpublished thesis, Paris: École des chartes, 2005), chapter 1.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)