Accession number
MS M.761
Object title
Poetic miscellany (MS M.761).
Created
England, between 1250 and 1299.
Binding
Original 13th-century oak boards, unbacked; traces remain of former red leather covering.
Description
194 leaves (1 column, 38 lines (fols. 1-189v); 2 columns, 38 lines (fols. 190-194)), bound : vellum, ill. ; 270 x 130 mm
Provenance
No. 5 in an old English family library; owned by Olschki and Ernst Philip Goldschmidt; purchased from Goldschmidt in 1930.
Notes
Ms. poetic miscellany; written and illuminated in England in the late 13th century.
Texts: 1) fol. 1v - unidentified text in French; 2) fols 2-3v; 3 - poem in French on the vanity of human affairs; 3) fols 3v-5v - Latin poem in 4-line rhymed stanza; 4) fols. 6-189v - La Lumière aux lais; 5) fols. 190-194 - poem on the love of God.
Decoration: 6 historiated initials (each depicting two monks, one teaching and the other listening); 12 marginal figures or vignettes.
Texts: 1) fol. 1v - unidentified text in French; 2) fols 2-3v; 3 - poem in French on the vanity of human affairs; 3) fols 3v-5v - Latin poem in 4-line rhymed stanza; 4) fols. 6-189v - La Lumière aux lais; 5) fols. 190-194 - poem on the love of God.
Decoration: 6 historiated initials (each depicting two monks, one teaching and the other listening); 12 marginal figures or vignettes.
Script
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Language
French and Latin
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