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Add MS 24199, ff 39r-89v
- Record Id:
- 041-003309295
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031475
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028527912.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060450533.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24199, ff 39r-89v
- Title:
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Collection of Verses by Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbode of Rennes, and others
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain a series of verses, some of which were written by Hildebert of Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours, Marbode, Bishop of Rennes, and anonymous authors. At least one of the poems has been attributed to Heloise (f. 77v; see Mews, The Lost Love Letters,164-66). The manuscript may have been copied at Bury St Edmunds in the 12th century. The folios include, amongst other poems:
ff. 39r-45r: verses by Hildebert;
ff. 45v-49v: Hildebert's Liber de querimonia et conflictu carnis et spiritus in prose and verse;
ff. 49v-55v: Hildebert's verse Vita Sanctæ Mariae Egyptiacæ;
ff. 56r-81v: poems by Marbode, Bishop of Rennes and other authors, including De lapidibus, De ornamentis verborum, and lives of SS. Laurence, Maurice, and Thais, and other miscellaneous pieces.
ff. 82v-89v: Hildebert's Vita Machometi.
Decoration: rubrics and titles in red (ff. 39r, 40v-45v, 54v-60v); manicula (ff. 47r, 56r, 61r-v, 82r-v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002031475
040-002031484
041-003309295 - Is part of:
- Add MS 24191-24202 : St. Martin in the Fields Manuscripts
Add MS 24199 : Azo, Commentary on Justinian’s Codex; Prudentius, Psychomachia; Various poems, including poems by Hildebert of Lavardin and Marbode…
Add MS 24199, ff 39r-89v : Collection of Verses by Hildebert of Lavardin, Marbode of Rennes, and others - Hierarchy:
- 032-002031475[0009]/040-002031484[0003]/041-003309295
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 24191-24202
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- Part of Additional 24199
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_24199 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (? The Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds; see Moser, Cosmos (2004), p.67.)
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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André Boutemy, 'Le recueil poétique du manuscrit Additional 24199 du British Museum', Latomus, 2 (1938), 30-52 [includes editions of some of the poems].
Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, The Scriptorium of Bury St. Edmunds in the Twelfth Century (New York: Garland Publishing, 1986), p. 323.
Constant J. Mews, The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France (New York, 1999), pp. 164-66.
Thomas C. Moser, A Cosmos of Desire: The Medieval Latin Erotic Lyric in English Manuscripts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), p.67
Bridget K. Balint, 'Envy in the Intellectual Discourse of the High Middle Ages', in The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities to Individuals, ed. by Richard Newhauser (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 41-56 (p. 48).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)