University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 659

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1573

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 659

Title:

Somme le roi.

Author:

Laurent, d'Orléans, active 1279

Laurent d'Orleans WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[circa 1300]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 85 leaves : parchment ; 195 x 134 (148 x 107) mm bound to 207 x 148 mm

Note:

Layout: Written in one hand, in one column, usually 31 lines.
First and last leaves of Miroir des bonnes femmes are missing, text begins just before the beginning of Eve's fourth folly, "fol regart," looking at the tree of forbidden fruit, continues through the 35 examples of bad women, and breaks off in the first example of good women, also Eve.
Title for manuscript from title for predominant work supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); title for second work, Miroir des bonnes femmes, also supplied (Grigsby).
Collation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 85 + ii (modern paper); 1⁴ 2¹² (-1, -12) 3¹² 4⁸ 5¹² 6¹² (-1) 7⁸ (-2) 8¹² (-1, -2) 9¹² (-11, -12) singleton; [1-85]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Foliation in this record diverges from that in Grisgsby articles, written at a time when the manuscript was foliated with a leaf skipped, 1-23, i, 24-84.
Ms. codex.
Decoration: Rubricated, with alternating red and blue capitals.
Binding: Late 19th- or 20th-century vellum. (Misbound: f. 1-4 should follow f. 29 in the middle of the fourth quire (f. 27-34), f. 85 should follow f. 64.).
Origin: Written in France, circa 1300. Date 1279 (f. 85r) is date of composition.
Attribution from colophon: Cest livre compila et parfist uns freres des prescheeurs a la request du roi de france phelipe. En lan de lincarnacion nostre Seigneur...M.CC.lxxix (f. 85r).
Scribe has added marginal notes and headings; there are other occassional notes in a 15th-century hand.
First parts of the Somme are missing, text begins in the chapter on greed. A few other leaves are missing from text.
Headings in upper outer corners of manuscript identify sections for "des males fames" and "des bones fames" (f. 65r-84v).
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1959.
Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French

Manuscripts, Medieval

500-1500

Christian women--Conduct of life

Virtues

History

Early works

Vices

Christian ethics

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874453503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3hm52k63/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania