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Royal MS 20 B XIII
- Record Id:
- 040-002107672
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0003bf
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 20 B XIII
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'LE SONGE VERITABLE': anonymous political tract in verse (about 3170 lines), in the form of a dialogue between Chascun and Povrete, Souffrance, Verite, Commune Renommee, Excusacion, Faulx Gouvernement, Experience, Fortune, Raison and Dampnacion. Printed from a Paris MS. (Bibl. Nat., n. acqu. fr. 6222), with some omissions, by H. de Moranvillé, Mem. de la Soc. de l'hist. de Paris ei de l'Île-de-France, xvii, 1890, pp. 217-438, who shows that it was written in 1406 by some one connected with the court of Charles VI. Another MS. at Paris is Bibl. Nat., fonds fr. 12488. Begins:-
'Les gens dient que en songes Na se fables non et menconges Sicom au Romans de la Roze Est dit en texte et non en glose.'
Ends:-
'Et que ien fu esmerucillie Que de grant paour ie mesueille.'
Colophon, 'Explicit le songe veritable contenant soixante et dix feulletz de papier escripte' (sic, the first word alone seems to be in the same hand as the text. and the volume has only 66 leaves, all told). The poem is followed by two short theologica tracts in prose, viz. (a) 'Du iour du jugement'. Beg. 'Quant nostre seigneur lhesuerist auecques tous ces angres viendra'. f. 64;-(b) 'Pour conuertir les pecheours'. Beg. 'Chascune personne qui est en pechie mortel'. f. 64 b. After the end of this half a leaf has been cut away.
Paper; ff. 66. Folio. 103/4 in. x 75/8 in. Second half of XV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (iv14, v, vi8 ?). Sec. fol. 'Com laboureurs'. Bound up with 20 B. XVII. Cat. of 1666, f. 14 b; not in CMA.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107672 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 20 B XIII : 'LE SONGE VERITABLE': anonymous political tract in verse (about 3170 lines), in the form of a dialogue between Chascun… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1813]/040-002107672
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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