Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 091: Histoire des Seigneurs de Gavres
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 91 contains one of only two surviving copies of the long version of the fifteenth-century French romance of Histoire des Seigneurs de Gavres (the other being in Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale MS 10238). Histoire was probably composed in Flanders in the 1450s, and the Corpus version is illustrated c. 1470-80 with a large frontispiece miniature by an anonymous Flemish artist who is known to have worked on a number of other volumes for patrons with connections to Edward IV. The artist has been named the Master of the Harley Froissart. This has led to speculation that this manuscript may have been produced for Edward IV or possibly William, Lord Hastings, c. 1475. Whoever the patron was, he was a Knight of the Garter, as evidenced by the garter surrounding the now erased blank shield on f. 1r. How the codex came into Parker's possession is unknown.
- Contents
- Histoire des Seigneurs de Gavres
Description
Alternative title | Histoire des Seigneurs de Gaures |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 200 + 3 |
Date created | [ca. 1450 - 1499] |
Language | French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | double columns of 30 lines |
Height (mm) | 360 |
Width (mm) | 253 |
Collation | 2 flyleaves, 1(8)-25(8), 1 flyleaf. |
Writing | in clear black hand approaching lettre bâtarde |
Foliation | ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-200 + iii + c-e |
Research | The text was printed in 1845 at Brussels by Van Dale (Histoire des Seigneurs de Gavres, Roman du xve siècle) with introduction and illustrations, and a glossary by Emile Gachet |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xv, second half |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 15 |
Stanley | B. 3 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/sf288jz3772 |
Location | MS 091 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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- Use and reproduction
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- License
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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