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Royal MS 15 C V
- Record Id:
- 040-002107069
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0000da
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 C V
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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ARCHITHRENIVS, the poem by Jean de Hauteville (or Anneville ?), cf. 13 A. IV, art. 5. Collated as B in Wright's edition. A table of headings is at the end, and there are a few contemporary marginal notes beg. 'Prohemium continet de potentia laboris'. Another hand adds 'Istum librum fecit lohannes de Anuilla iuxta Rothomagum existente ducatu Normannie sub rege Anglico'. The prose preface 'Architrenius quidam' is added in another 14th cent. hand at the end (f. 57 b) with note 'licet enim hoe prohemium in principio libri poni debuerit secundum rectum ordinem, tamen propter pergameni defectum positum est in fine'. Text beg. 'Velificatur Athos'. Colophon, 'Explicit liber Architrenii ad Gualterum Rothomagensem archiepiscopum. deo gratias'. f. 2.
On the fly-leaves are, in 14th cent. hands, (a) Four lines beg. 'Videas (sic) quid tu iubeas dum tnagnus haberis'. f. 1 b;-(b) A couplet beg. 'Dum potes (sic) prodesse tuis prodesse memento'. f. 1 b;-(c) Goliardic verses, 8 x 4 lines, beg. 'Inter acrimonias estus et dolorum que passim familias tangunt prelatorum'. f. 57 b.
Vellum; ff. 57. 111/4 in. x 63/4 in. Late XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, with catchwords. Sec. fol. 'non apud Arturi'. Initials in red and blue. On f. 57 b is the note 'Hunc librum ego Iehan le Begue regis notarius et secretarius emi circa finem Aprilis anno dom. mcccci precio 2 ff.'; i.e. Jean le Bègue, Greffier of the Chambre des Comptes, who compiled the Louvre catalogue of 1411 (see L. Delisle, Cab. des MSS. i, p. 23, ii, p. 340). On f. 56 is his anagram 'A bele viegne'. On f. 2 an old press-mark V 3 G 3 A 13. Cat. of 1666, f. 21; CMA. 8455.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107069 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 15 C V : ARCHITHRENIVS, the poem by Jean de Hauteville (or Anneville ?), cf. 13 A. IV, art. 5. Collated as B in Wright's edition. A table… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1266]/040-002107069
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1260
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- Late 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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