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Royal MS 19 A IX
- Record Id:
- 040-002107579
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x000345
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058663464.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 19 A IX
- Title:
- Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du monde
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: Gossuin (Gautier) de Metz (c. 1245), L'Image du monde, a French version of De imagine mundi by Honorius of Autun.
ff. 1r-3v: Table of chapters;
ff. 4r-4v: Prologue, This manuscript contains a unique prologue linking it to Caxton's printed editions and stating 'ce p[rese]nt volume appelle lymage du monde Et fu translate de latin en franchois p[ar] le co[m]mandement et ordonnance du noble duc Jehan de berry et d'auvergne l'an 1245'. Jean, duc de Berry (b. 1340, d. 1416);
ff. 5r-5v: Translator's prologue;
ff. 5v-47r: Part I, Creation and science from a historical and moral perspective;
ff. 47r-102v: Part 2, Earth and its elements: earth, water, air, fire and ether;
ff. 102v-150v: Part 3: Astronomy and the celestial motions.
Decoration:
5 miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 4r, 5v, 8r, 9r, 149r). Circular diagrams in colours (ff. 41r, 42r, 43r, 43v, 44r, 45v, 48r, 48v, 49r, 49v, 50r, 90r, 100v, 102r, 104r,106r,107v, 108v, 110r). Rubrics and page numbers in red. Small capitals at beginning of sentences highlighted in red.
The subjects of the miniatures and diagrams are:
f. 4r: A master and scholars with books;
f. 5v: The Creator seated, holding a pear-shaped universe on a spindle; above are the moon and sun; on a table are mathematical instruments;
f. 8r: The Creation of the Earth, with the Creator seated, holding the Earth and a pair of compasses;
f. 9r: The Creation of Eve from Adam;
f. 41r: The spheres of the elements;
ff. 42r: Two circular diagrams with small human figures, demonstrating the roundness of the earth;
ff. 43r-44r: Three diagrams of the earth;
f. 45v: Interlocking squares within a circle;
ff. 48r-50r: Diagrams showing the division of the earth into parts;
ff. 98r, 100v, 102r: Three diagrams of the spheres of the planets;
f. 104r: The path of light and shadows cast by the earth;
ff. 106r: Phases of the moon;
ff. 107v, 108v, 110r: Eclipses of the moon and sun;
ff. 149r: The universe in concentric spheres with Christ at the top, hell in the middle and the symbols of the Evangelists at the corners.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107579 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 19 A IX : Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du monde - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1726]/040-002107579
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058663464.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1459
- End Date:
- 1469
- Date Range:
- c 1464
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 205mm (text space: 195 x 130mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 152 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning, 1 after f. 151 and 1 at the end).
Collation: Gatherings of 12 leaves.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: BM/BL In-house. Rebound in 1968.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Netherlands, S. (Bruges).
Provenance:
Johan le Clerc, Bruges: inscribed 'en la ville de bruges en.....1464 par le comandement de Johan le clerc, librarier et bourgois dicelle ville de bruges' (f. 4v).
John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673): included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer (b. 1651): see E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6649.
Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no . 75.
Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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O. H. Prior, L'image du monde de Maitre Gossouin (Lausanne: Librairie Payot, 1913), pp. 18-20, 57-204 [an edition of the text].
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, p. 320.
Marcel Destombes, Mappemondes 1200-1500: Catalogue prepare pour la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l'Union Geographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), p. 145, no. 46.8.
Lilian M. C. Randall, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, 3 vols (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989-1997), III: Belgium, 1250-1530, 2 parts, II, p. 444.
Rudolf Simek, Heaven and earth in the Middle Ages: the physical world before Columbus, translated by Angela Hall (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1996), pp. vii, 12, 35.
Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475 (Leuven: Davidsfonds, 2002), p. 325.
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), [on the text].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)