Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 324

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    • CAMBRIDGE. Corpus Christi College Library, 324
    • CAMBRIDGE, Corpus Christi College Library, 324
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 324
    • CCCC MS 324
    • MS 324
    • Parker Library MS 324
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Author : Anonyme
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  • Script :
    • in fine upright French hand, brown ink
  • Decoration :
    • The style of writing and ornament is fine French. Borders of ivy-leaf (with many gold leaves) springing from straight bands of gold and blue. Smaller initials, blue with red flourishing, and red with green-blue flourishing. On iiv near upper L. corner: Charles. F. 1r is fully bordered. The miniature, a small square one, is much rubbed and part of the background scraped off. It represents the queen standing under a roof or canopy supported on gold shafts, a little white dog on R., on L. a Franciscan kneels and presents a gold book. Two shields are in the border below. (1) party per pale, dexter az. semee of fleurs de lys or, with a bend arg. bearing an indistinct charge gu.: sinister az. damaged. (2) party per pale az. fleurs de lys or: dexter has label of 3 points gu.: sinister plain.
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 2 + 298
  • Dimensions :
    • 161 x 234
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 24 lines
    • ff. aa + bb (binding fragments) + a-c + i-ii + 1-298 + d-f
    • prudence. ainsi lisons
    • a(2) I(12)-III(12) (12 canc.) IV(12) V(14) (14? canc.) VI(12)-XIV(12) (12 canc.) XV(12) XVI(12) XVII(4) XVIII(12)-XXIII(12) XXIV(10) XXV(12) XXVI(10) (wants 10).

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  • Anonyme | Miroir aux dames
    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Selon ce que dit un grant maistre qui est nommé Vegecius en un livre que il fist de ce qui apartient a chevalerie

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 324 contains a luxurious fourteenth-century copy of Le Miroir des dames, a translation into French of the Speculum dominarum, a didactic text written for Jeanne de Navarre (d. 1305), wife of Philip IV of France, by her confessor, Durand de Champagne OFM. The manuscript is described as bearing the sign manual of Charles V of France (1338-80), and in 1411 the catalogue of the French royal library recorded this manuscript as still being in the collection at the Louvre palace, where it is described as 'de bonne lettre de forme' in a linen cover with two gold clasps. It contains a miniature of the presentation of the book to Jeanne by her confessor, and many illuminated borders and initials.


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    Langue(s) des textes : français


    1r-294v - Le Miroir des dames

    Note : Prologue

    rubric : (1r) Ci commence le prologue seur le liure qui est apelez le mireour des dames

    incipit : (1r) Selonc ce que dit vns mestres qui est nomez vegecius

    explicit : (2v) et sens fin auec le souuerain roy regner

    rubric : (2v) Ci est mis le fondement de leuure ensuient

    incipit : (2v) Salomons qui fu de sapience par le don de dieu

    Note : Partial border and shield (with billets gules on bend) suspended from a leaf

    Note : Headlines in red, changing with the subject of the text

    Note : Part I ends:

    explicit : (195v) pour venir finablement a la coronne de gloyre qui durra pardurablement. Amen

    rubric : (196r) La seconde partie principal de ce liure qui parle quelle noble dame doit estre par acquisition quar elle doit aquerir sapience. Premier chapitre

    incipit : (196r) Au commencement de ce liure il fu dit que il contenoit iii parties principax

    Note : Partial border: hanging to one of the leaves is the shield with label of three points gules

    explicit : (233v) qui miex amoit morir que feyre aucune chose par doublerie ne par simulacion

    Note : (Part III)

    incipit : (233v) Au commencement de ce liure il fu dit etc.

    Note : Partial border, and shield with bend argent, here bearing no charge

    explicit : (294r) qui en trinite parfecte vit et regne pardurablement

    rubric : (294r) Ci finist le mireour des dames. pleyse a dieu que il leur profite aus ames

    Note : (294r) Alphabetical table. Abstinence-Vengence

    Note : 296v-298v blank

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Provenance

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  • From the Library of Charles V of France.

Notes

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  • exemplaire ayant appartenu à une reine ou une princesse de France (Tesnière 2011)

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  • Research: The prologue was printed by M. L. Delisle in Notices et Extraits, 1886, t. XXXI, as also the Catalogue of Charles V's library in his Cabinet des MSS. III 192. A copy occurs in the catalogue of the Library of the Louvre, the 2nd folio beginning ter et reposer. Two copies in Barrois' Bibliothèque protypographique (Bruges Inventory of Bibliothèque de Bourgogne) no. 949 (le souverain Roy) and 950 (Et des biens que j'en ay eus) also 2131, 2 which are the same. Other copies are at Brussels, no. 9555, British Museum Add. 29986 as well as in the Bibliothèque Nationale.The present copy is thus described in the Inventory of the Library of the Louvre drawn up in 1411. (No. 890.) Item le miroir des dames en françois, de bonne lettre de forme, a deux coulombes, historié et enluminé, commençant au iie fo. prudence ainsi li homs, et ou derrenier vertuz vengence, couvert d'une chemise de toille à queue, et ii petiz fermoirs d'argent dorez, esmaillez de France, et une pipe de broderie (Delisle, Recherches sur la Librairie de Charles V: 1907, I, p. 247).It is worth noting that William Worcester (Itineraries, p. 275) speaks of owning a copy of this book: de libro vocato le myrrour de dames cooperto rubeo coreo.

Bibliography

  • Tesnière, Marie-Hélène. “La Littérature Autour de 1300 Dans La Librairie Du Louvre : Recherches.” In La Moisson Des Lettres: L’invention Littéraire Autour de 1300, Dir. Hélène Bellon-Méguelle, Olivier Collet, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens et Ludivine Jaquiéry, 49–79. Texte, Codex et Contexte. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.
  • 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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