Harvard University, MS Fr 395

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11229

Shelfmark:

MS Fr 395

Title:

Sydrac et Bocthus; le livre de Sydrac de toute sciences

Author:

Sidrac, active 13th century

Sidrac WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1300 and 1320.

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 v. (160 leaves) ; 28 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Bateman, Richard Thomas, 1712 or 1713-

Richard Thomas Bateman WIKIDATA

Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914

Hermann Suchier WIKIDATA

Olschki, Leo S. 1861-1940

Leo Olschki WIKIDATA

Note:

Leaves 1-159r contain Livre de Sydrac; leaves 159r-160v contain Raoul de Houdenc's Roman des eles de courtoisie (a fragment of 252 lines).
Manuscript in a gothic book hand in red and blue ink, in two columns, with decorated initials in red and blue and 9 illuminated initials with burnished gold and extensions (leaves 13, 15, 22, 34v, 85, 105v, 109, 125v, and 137; blank space for possible initial on leaf 122).
Written in Northern France, not earlier than 1300 and probably ca. 1320.
Limp vellum cover with separate (later?) vellum strip pasted over spine; pastedowns are from a much larger manuscript (13th cent., in Latin, on a legal topic, main text in two columns, with glosses and red and blue paragraph marks).
Title from front cover.
Sydrac incipits: Chi commencent le capitre et les questions (leaf 1) and La pourveanche nostre Signeur le pere tout pouissant (leaf 13); explicit, Sydrac nous ensengne et monstre [à l'?]honneur Dou cors et pourfit des ames. amen (leaf 159).
Sydrac text differs greatly from that published in Sylvie-Marie Steiner, Le livre de Sidrach ([Melun, France]: Association Mémoires, 1994).
Gift of David P. Wheatland, 1991.
Purchased by Wheatland from H.P. Kraus; Leo Olschki (1920); Herman Suchier (1896); bookplate of Nicolas Joseph Foucault; leaf one annotated: "OR.F Bateman's Sale 1774" (identified in dealer's note as the 1774 May 3 Christie's sale of the library of the Hon. Richard Bateman); annotation on Foucault bookplate: "J A Fox [Jc] Bacon [or Becan?] Auction April 29, 1777 Pr -.8.0"; ownership(?) mark...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

rules (layout features)

Science

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990079090720203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:13993065

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:13993066

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:13993067

Holding Institution:

Harvard University