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Somme le roi

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3hm52k63
Title: Somme le roi
Name: Laurent, d'Orléans, active 1279
Date: 1300
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Manuscripts, French, Manuscripts, Medieval, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Comprised of two works, both fragments, in one hand: Somme des vices et vertus, also known as Somme le roi of Frère Laurent (f. 1-64, 85); and Miroir des bonnes femmes (f. 65-84); plus a short text on what is now the final folio, Comment l'en se doit avoir a la messe (f. 84v).
Extent: 85 leaves : parchment ; 195 x 134 (148 x 107) mm bound to 207 x 148 mm
Language: French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
Coverage: Middle Ages, 600-1500, Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., 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. Link to collation model at end of record., Layout: Written in one hand, in one column, usually 31 lines., 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., 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., Headings in upper outer corners of manuscript identify sections for "des males fames" and "des bones fames" (f. 65r-84v)., Middle French.
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3hm52k63, Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/147
Subject: Christian ethics -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500, Christian ethics, History, Christian women -- Conduct of life, Vices -- Early works to 1800, Vices, Virtues -- Early works to 1800, Virtues
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 659
Provenance: Sold by Laurence Witten, 1959., Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, not before 1961.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9924874453503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3hm52k63/manifest

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Metadata

DS ID:: DS1573
Shelfmark:: Ms. Codex 659
Title:: Somme le roi

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
Material:: parchment

Parchment AAT
Physical Description:: Extent: 85 leaves : parchment ; 195 x 134 (148 x 107) mm bound to 207 x 148 mm
Note:: Ms. codex.
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. Link to collation model at end of...
Layout: Written in one hand, in one column, usually 31 lines.
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.
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.
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, not before 1961.
Keyword:: Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French

Fourteenth century

Virtues

Early works

Vices

Christian women--Conduct of life

500-1500

Christian ethics

History

Christian ethics--Middle Ages
Institutional Record:: https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874453503681
IIIF Manifest:: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3hm52k63/manifest
Holding Institution:: University of Pennsylvania

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