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Sloane MS 809
- Record Id:
- 040-002113161
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000547.0x0003bf
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172736324.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 809
- Title:
- Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Walter of Bibbesworth ('Biblesworth'), Tretiz de langage, a poem in Anglo-Norman French verse with an English glossary, composed in the mid 13th century as a tool for teaching useful French vocabulary to English landowners. It exists in a long and a short version. This text resembles that of Arundel 220, the short version, but it contains only about 400 lines of the total 850; the prologue is from the longer version, identifying the author, Bibbesworth (or Bitheswith) and his patron, Dyonise de Mountechensi (imperfect, as this part of the roll is damaged). Glosses in English in the margins.
Decoration:
Four round decorative symbols in red and brown at the end of the treatise. Rubrics and some English glosses in red. Capitals highlighted in red at the beginning of lines.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002113161 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 809 : Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[0824]/040-002113161
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100172736324.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1295
- End Date:
- 1305
- Date Range:
- c 1300
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 1350 x 100 mm.
Foliation: 4 membranes, unfoliated.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Margaret Laing, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English pp. 45, 106.
Walter de Bibbesworth, Le Tretiz, ed. by William Rothwell (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1990), p. 2; online at http://www.anglo-norman.net/cgi-bin/and-getloc?filename=bibbes-apps.xml&loc=1 [accessed 01.03. 2017].
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 285.
Michael T. Clanchy, From memory to written record: England 1066-1307 (London: Edward Arnold, 1979, repr. 1987), n. 132.
Frankwalt Möhren, Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français: Complément Bibliographique (Tübingen: Neimeyer, 2007), p. 80.
The treatise of Walter of Bibbesworth: Le tretiz, trans. by Andrew Dalby from the edition by William Rothwell (Devon : Prospect Books, 2012) [on the text].
Fiona Harris-Stoertz, 'Midwives in the Middle Ages ? Birth attendants, 600-1300', in Medicine and the law in the Middle Ages, ed. by Wendy J. Turner & Sara M. Butler (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 58-87 (p. 84).
Mary Agnes Edsall, 'Arma Christi Rolls or Textual Amulets?: The Narrow Roll Format Manuscripts of O Vernicle', p. 89; online at http://magic.pennpress.org/media/33873/mrw-92-edsall.pdf [accessed 01.03. 2017].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)