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- Record Id:
- 040-002088764
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002088757
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001490.0x00012d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100174685215.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 35289
- Title:
- Chanson d'Aspremont
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Chanson d’Aspremont, verses 24-376 and 395-540.
Aspremont is the second of three chansons de geste of the Charlemagne cycle from the late 12th century, narrating Charlemagne's early expedition across the Alps to Aspremont in Italy to retake land in Calabria from the Saracen king, Agolant. This is one of the most complete surviving texts, with only the first part, 'La cour d'Agoland' (verses 1-23) and part of the 'Preparatifs a la bataille finale' (verses 377-394) lacking (verse numbering is according to Roepke Studien zur Chanson d'Aspremont (1908) in de Mandach, Naissance et développement (1975), p. 10).
This copy may have served as model for the version in the Talbot-Shrewsbury Book, British Library, Royal MS 15 E vi, ff. 43-69. Another version of the text in Anglo-Norman French is found in Lansdowne MS 783 (1240-1248), containing verses 209-514 only.
Decoration:
Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing or penwork decoration in the other colour at the beginning of each verse. Pencil drawing of a man's head in profile (f. 21r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002088757
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- File
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100174685215.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 255 x 180 mm (text space: 190 x 110 mm).
Layout: Two columns of 40 lines.
Foliation: ff. 63 (f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf).
Collation: i1(f. 1); ii-vii8 (ff. 2-57); viii6 (ff. 58-62). Catchwords on the final versos (except quires vii and viii).
Script: Gothic (written above the top line).
Binding: Medieval binding of oak boards with parchment covering and remains of metal clasps.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, S. (Canterbury).
Provenance:
Brother Anthony, probably Prior of Hauterive near Vichy, France in 1299, given by him to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: shelfmark and inscription, 'Lib[er] f[rat]ris Antonii de alta ripa in gallico, qui dicitur Aquilant. De libr[i] S[anc]ti Aug[ustin]i Cant[uariensis]. Dist[inctio] xvi G[radus] IIII ' (f. 1r) and in the catalogue of 1519 (see Ker Medieval Libraries (1964), p. 42).
Sir John Savile (b. 1818, d. 1896), diplomat and collector: his sale, Sotheby's, 6 February, 1861, lot 26.
The Libri Library, in the 'Catalogue of the reserved portion of the Libri Library', 1862, lot 3, bought by Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: his bookplate with a date of May 1897 and a note, 'Ashburnam Appendix 220' attached to the inside upper binding and his sale, Sotheby's'1 May 1899, lot 150; bought by the British Museum.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Paul Meyer, 'Fragment d'Aspremont conservé aux archives du Puy-de-Dome', Romania, 19 (1890), 201-36 (pp. 201, 217, 221-23), [formerly Ashburnham Appendix 220].
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum, 1901), p. 236.
Fritz Roepke, Studien zur Chanson d'Aspremont: Beschreibung der Handschriften, Bibliographie, Concordanztabelle, Textproben (Greifswald: Druck von F. W. Kunike, 1908-09).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 42.
André de Mandach, Naissance et développement de la Chanson de Geste en Europe, 3 vols (Geneva: Libraire Droz, 1975), III: Chanson d'Aspremont, A. Les cours d'Agoland et de Charlemagne, Publications romanes et françaises, 134 (1975) [an edition of this manuscript].
D. A Trotter, Medieval French Literature and the Crusades (Geneva: Droz, 1987), pp. 78-79.
The Song of Aspremont (La Chanson d'Aspremont), ed. and trans. by Michael A. Newth ( New York: Garland, 1989) [a translation of the text].
Keith Busby, Codex and Context: Reading Old French Verse Narrative in Manuscript, 2 vols, (Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2002) I, pp. 120-26.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 77.
Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français: Complément Bibliographique, ed. by Frankwalt Möhren (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2007), col. 44.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)