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Le testament; Raoul de Houdenc, Le Songe d'Enfer
Title
Le testament; Raoul de Houdenc, Le Songe d'Enfer.
Created
Northern France, [between 1300 and 1350]
Physical Description
ff. i + 18 + i : parchment ; 215 x 165 mm.
Language
French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Notes
Script: Copied by one hand in a rather uneven Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria, marked by many fusions.
The opening letters of all verses are heightened in red; in art. 1 the first verse of each quatrain except the first one opens with a 1-line plain red initial. Art. 1 opens with a 3-line plain red initial, art. 2 with a 2-line one. All initials are executed over guide-letters.
The codex is badly trimmed, causing the loss of letters at the end of verses.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Half brown leather over pasteboard, the boards covered with red paper. On the spine a black leather label with the gold-tooled title "CODICILLE / I. DE MEUN" and a green circular paper label with the handwritten shelfmark "301".
In French.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.
Provenance
Purchased in 1989 (?) from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment (low quality) of 1) Jean de Meun (ca. 1240, d. before 1305), Le Testament. 2) Raoul de Houdenc (ca. 1170-ca. 1230), Le Songe d'Enfer (La Voie d'Enfer), 1-672. At least 6 verses are missing at the end; they were probably written on a leaf now missing after f. 18.
Publications
M. Timmel Mihm, The Songe d'Enfer of Raoul de Houdenc: An Edition based on all the Extant Manuscripts.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2011
References
Jean de Meun, Le Testament. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Jean de Meun, Le Testament. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval.
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