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Harley MS 7403
- Record Id:
- 040-002053258
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002053258
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x0003a6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165170063.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7403
- Title:
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Religious poems and prose in Old Provençal
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-27r: The Gospel of Nicodemus [Evangelium Nicodemi] in Old Provençal verse; incomplete at the beginning: ‘Veias qui es parlar ab tu / Ieu regardiei e vi ihesu'.
ff. 27r-34v: The Fifteen Signs before Doomsday [Quindecim Signa ante Judicium] in Old Provençal verse; beginning: ‘Seynhors vos temes enugar / A destorbar d'alcun afar’.
ff. 35r-35v: The Gospel of Nicodemus [Evangelium Nicodemi] in Old Provençal verse.
ff. 36r-48v: An untitled legend of the Holy Rood known as Post peccatum Ade in Old Provençal prose [featuring added marginal notes in Latin], beginning ‘Apres que Adam son gitatz de paradis per lo peccat de la inobedientia que el hac trespassat el cridet merce a nostre senher li promes que a la fi del mon li donaria l'oli de misericordia’.
ff. 49r-62v: An untitled poem on dietetics in Old Provençal, beginning: ‘Qui vol auzir un bon tractat / Qui iei novelament trobat’.
ff. 63r-109v: An untitled confessional prayer for a sinner known as Dona sancta in Old Provençal verse, beginning: ‘Dona sancta Maria flors de virginitat / Regina de las verges soleils de castitat’.
ff. 111r-132v: Raimon de Castelnou, Doctrinal in Old Provençal verse, beginning: ‘E nom de dieu lo paire e de la trinitat / E de la dousa verge que Jhesu a portat’.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 110r: The hymn Trisagion in Latin, followed by a Latin prayer ('Adoro te domine ihesu Christe salvator mundi’) with a French translation (‘Azori te senher diaus Iezus Crist salvador de tot lo mon’); added in the 15th or 16th century.
f. 133v: A summary of the manuscript’s contents: ‘A poem on divine subjets written in old French provençal’; added in the 18th century.
Decoration:
Numerous large (two-line) initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, in red with purple pen-flourishing, or puzzle initials in red and blue with red and purple pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Simple full (f. 111r), one-sided (ff. 1v, 7v, 13v, 40v, 42r, 43r, 45r, 46r, 48r, 49r-50r, 51v, 56r-58r, 63r, 68v, 70v, 72v, 74r, 76r, 79v, 82v, 84r, 85r, 85v, 87v, 89v, 92v, 95v, 100r, 105r, 106v, 118r), and two-sided (f. 36r) bar borders in red and/or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002053258", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 7403: Religious poems and prose in Old Provençal" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002053258 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7403 : Religious poems and prose in Old Provençal - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7414]/040-002053258
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_7403 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin
Provençal, Old - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 145 mm (text space: 170 x 80-100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 133 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank parchment leaf between f. 48 and f. 49; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 28 and f. 29; 1 unfoliated paper strip with a printed text (bibliographical notes) between f. [ii] and f. [iii].
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Southern France.
Provenance:
‘Jehan du Pon’, owned in the 15th- or 16th- century: his name inscribed on f. 1r: ‘De mon Sr Jehan du Pon lequel me vent fairre bonne renomee’; perhaps also responsible for added prayers in Latin and French on f. 110r; and added notes on ff. 78v-79r, 80r, and 110v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
‘[F]ourestier’, owned in the (?) 17th-century: his name inscribed on f. 103r [perhaps written over a previous ownership inscription]; perhaps also added a (?) date [‘Le 12 Mars 1[6]00’] on f. 110r (not in 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.
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.
- Publications:
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Clovis Brunel, Bibliographie des manuscrits littéraires en ancien provençal, Société de publications romanes et françaises, 13 (Paris: Droz, 1935), p. 7 [no. 21].
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 530.
‘Harley 7403’, Les Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA) [accessed 30 January 2020].
Hermann Suchier, Denkmäler Provenzalischer Literatur und Sprache, 2 vols (Halle: Niemeyer, 1883), I, pp. 1-255 [edition of the entire manuscript]; 484-85 [manuscript description].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)