University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 662

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DS ID:

DS1576

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 662

Title:

L'evangile de l'enfance ...etc..

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[between 1450 and 1499]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Old French, last section has some Latin

Old French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 104 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 280 x 200 (176 x 140) mm bound to 295 x 215 mm

Note:

Ford, Alvin E. L'Évangile de Nicodème, les versions courtes en ancien franc̦ais et en prose (Genève: Droz, 1973) discusses the second text.
Ulrich, Jakob, ed. Der Cato Jean Le Fevre's, Romanische Forschungen 15 (1904), pp. 70-106.
Ms. codex.
Boulton, Maureen Barry McCann. The Old French Évangile de l'enfance : an edition (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984) discusses the first text.
See Penn Ms Fr 41: A Codicological Study by Anne D. Hedeman (1979), typescript shelved with Ms. Codex 662, for codicological description of the manuscript.
Title for manuscript from title of predominant work (Zacour-Hirsch), other titles supplied by cataloger.
Incipit, first work: Cy commancent les enfances nostre sire et partye des miraclez qu'il fist en son enfance et si commancent en la maniere qui ensuyt par vers rimes translatez de latin en francois par le roy Charles VIe (f. 1r). Explicit: Que nous puissions tous a luy plaire/Aussi a la Vierge marie/Amen amen chascun en dye (f. 40v).
Incipit, second work: Cy ensieut la passion de nostre doulx Sauveur Jhesucrist en rommans, lequel nous doint vivre en cest siecle en telle maniere comme il scet que mestier nous est et quant larme partyra de nostre corps qu'il lez vueille recevoir en son saint paradise. Amen (f. 41v). Explicit: Et quant les eveques ont oy la vraye reson de Nycodemus ilz se mettent les chaperons devant les...
Incipit, third work: Inter convivas fac sis sermone modestus/Ne dicare loquax dum vis bonus ipse videre/Attempre toy quant tu seras a table/Que ne parles trop vray ne de fable (f. 99r). Explicit: Cum tibi continguat studio cognoscere multa / Fac discas multa vita nil velle doceri (f. 104v).
Collation: Paper, i + 104 + i; 1-4¹², 5-6¹⁰, 7¹¹ (+1), 8¹⁰, 9¹⁰ (-10), 10⁶ (all folios inserted); [1-104]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Moderate to severe oxidation of ink on some folios.
Script: Written in a French lettre bâtarde (Zacour-Hirsch) by one or two hands.
Decoration: First and last work have strapwork initials in red, black, and yellow, a number with grotesque faces (for example, f. 29v, 32r, 35v, 39v, 99v, 100r-v); 2-line initials and rubrics in red in first and second work.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet 2774.
Binding: 18th-century[?] red velvet (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in France in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Layout: Written in 23 long lines; frame-ruled in lead; chancery folio format.
Sold at auction in Paris, 7 Nov. 1934, lot 615.
Ex libris Congregationis Oratorii à [Cleris?], 1674 (note, f. 1r).
Purchased, 1959.

Keyword:

Apocryphal and legendary literature

Manuscripts, Renaissance

poems

Codices

Poetry

Manuscripts, French

Biographies

Jesus Christ

Children

Childhood of Jesus Christ

Passion of Jesus Christ

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874483503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3tx3573j/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania