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Royal MS 20 A III
- Record Id:
- 040-002107642
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0003a1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058662812.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 20 A III
- Title:
- Gossuin de Metz, L'image du monde; Prose Brut Chronicle
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1-120: Gossuin de Metz, L'image du monde;
ff. 121-236: Prose Brut Chronicle.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107642 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 20 A III : Gossuin de Metz, L'image du monde; Prose Brut Chronicle - Contains:
- Royal MS 20 A III, ff 1-120 : Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du Monde
Royal MS 20 A III, ff 121-236 : Prose Brut chronicle
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Royal MS 20 A III - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1783]/040-002107642
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058662812.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 140mm (text space: 170/80 x 60/100mm).
Foliation: ff. 237 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf between f. 236 and 237 + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end). Old foliation on versos (ff. 1v to 120v) and on rectos to xxiiii (ff. 122r-158r).
Script: Gothic and gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Royal library red leather with the arms of George II and a date of 1757.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France or England.
Provenance: Date of 1342 inscribed on f. 120v: 'Si fine livre de limage de monde Fait en lan de grace mil. Ccc.xlii le samadi devant la feste Saint Martyn dyver'.
John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 1049 (see The Lumley Library, 1956); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.
Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666 (f. 11r).
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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Paul Meyer, 'L'Image du Monde: redaction du ms. Harléien 4333', Romania, 21 (1892), 481-505 (pp. 487 n., 490 n., 498 n., 500 n.).
Friedrich W. D. Brie, 'Gischichte und Quellen de mittelenglischen Prosachronik The Brute of England' (Marburg: N.G. Elwert'sche, 1905), p. 28.
O. H. Prior, L'image du monde de Maitre Gossouin (Lausanne: Librairie Payot, 1913), [on the text, part 1].
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. 351.
The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956], p. 133.
John Taylor, 'The French 'Brut' and the Reign of Edward II', The English Historical Review, 72 (1957), 423-37 (pp. 425, 432).
Andrew G. Watson Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 916.
Diana B. Tyson, 'Handlist of Manuscripts containing the French Prose Brut Chronicle', Scriptorium, Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 48 (1994), 333-44 (p. 339).
Lister M. Matheson, The Prose Brut: The Development of a Middle English Chronicle, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 180 (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University, 1998), pp. xix, 36.
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)