Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 91

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • CAMBRIDGE. Corpus Christi College Library, 091
    • CAMBRIDGE, Corpus Christi College Library, 091
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 91
    • CCCC MS 91
    • MS 091
    • Parker Library MS 91
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Author : Anonyme
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in clear black hand approaching lettre bâtarde
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 200 + 3
  • Dimensions :
    • 253 x 360
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 30 lines
    • ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-200 + iii + c-e
    • 2 flyleaves, 1(8)-25(8), 1 flyleaf.

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Data Source: Jonas

  • Anonyme | Seigneurs de Gavre
    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Jadis ou temps que rengna en France le tresglorieulx et bon roy saint Loys

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : 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.


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    Langue(s) des textes : français


    1r-200v - Histoire des Seigneurs de Gavres || Histoire des Seigneurs de Gaures

    Note : The text begins

    incipit : (1r) Les tres haulx et courageux faiz de noz anchiens predecesseurs escripz pour exemple et memoire ala loenge diceulx

    Note : (1r) This first page has a picture and full border of conventional and natural flowers and foliage on plain ground. In the lower margin a shield surmounted with crest and surrounded by the garter with motto. Shield and crest have been carefully erased and so has a banner in the R. margin The picture, rather rubbed, but in fine Flemish style, represents the interior of a room with wooden roof. On L. stone fire-place with fire. On R. bed in alcove: green tiled floor. Before the fire lies a nude infant. The mother, in tall headdress, sits wringing her hands on seat (along the wall). Two maids kneel on L. in consternation. In C. the Seigneur de Gaures in gown with stick, gesticulating. Two men and two women on R. in consternation Along the back wall is a settle ending on R. in a kind of desk. The wall is hung with an arras, deep red ground, gold birds in pairs, two rows of trees, on each a scroll bearing one word of the garter motto. The incident shown is the Seigneur de Gaures throwing his infant son into the fire (see f. 8r)

    Note : The text ends

    explicit : (200v) Ceste histoire a este translatee de grec en latin et de latin en flamenc. Et depuis a este transmuee en langaige franchoiz le derrenier jour de mars lan mil iiic lvi. Cy fine lystoire des seigneurs de gaures

    Note : (200v) After this an erasure, possibly only a scribbled repetition of the colophon, such as occurs on the flyleaf: Sy fine lyst

Participants

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  • Lord William Hastings ( Possesseur ) : armoiries grattées (Source : Jonas)
  • Philippe de Mazerolles ( Enlumineur ) : enlumineur du frontispice (unique illustration) (Source : Jonas)

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Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • 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

Bibliography

  • Bousmanne, Bernard, and Thierry Delcourt, eds. Miniatures Flamandes 1404-1482. Paris - Bruxelles: Bibliothèque nationale de France - Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 2011.
  • Morgan, Nigel, and Stella Panayotova. A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2009.
  • STUIP, RENE. “L’Histoire Des Seigneurs de Gavre (Ms 91).” In Les Manuscrits Français de La Bibliothèque Parker. Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Actes Du Colloque 24-27 Mars 1993, 87–99. Cambridge: Parker Library Publications, 1993.
  • STUIP, RENE. Histoire Des Seigneurs de Gavre. Bibl Du XVe Siècle 53. Paris: Champion, 1993.
  • Wilkins, Nigel. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Français de La Bibliothèque Parker (Parker Library). Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Parker Library Publications, 1993.

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