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Comprised of two works, both fragments, in one hand: Somme des vices et vertus, also known as Somme le roi of Frère Laurent (f. 1-63 plus 84); and Miroir des bonnes femmes (f. 64-83); plus a short text on the final folio, Comment l'en se doit avoir a la messe (f. 84v).
Support: parchment :; Extent: 85 leaves : 195 x 134 (148 x 107) mm. bound to 207 x 148 mm; Foliation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 85 + ii (modern paper); [1-85]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in one hand, in one column, usually 31 lines.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger. Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue has supplied the titles Somme le roi and Miroir des bonnes femmes.
Attribution from colophon: Cest livre compila et parfist uns freres des prescheeurs a la request du roi de france phelipe. En lan de lincarnacion nostre Seigneur...M.CC.lxxix (f. 84r).
Scribe has added marginal notes and headings; there are other occassional notes in a 15th-century hand.
First parts of the Somme are missing, text begins in the chapter on greed. A few other leaves are missing from text.
First and last leaves of Miroir des bonnes femmes are missing, text begins with Eve's fourth folly, "fol regart," looking at the tree of forbidden fruit.
Headings in upper outer corners of ms. identify sections for "des males fames" and "des bones fames" (f. 65v-83v).
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
France
Written in France, ca. 1300. Date 1279 is date of composition, ms. undated.
Late 19th- or 20th-century vellum. (Misbound: ff. 1-4 belongs after f. 29, f. 84 belongs after f. 63.).
Middle French
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1959.
Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald.
France
Written in France, ca. 1300. Date 1279 is date of composition, ms. undated.
Middle French
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1959.
Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald.
Comprised of two works, both fragments, in one hand: Somme des vices et vertus, also known as Somme le roi of Frère Laurent (f. 1-63 plus 84); and Miroir des bonnes femmes (f. 64-83); plus a short text on the final folio, Comment l'en se doit avoir a la messe (f. 84v).
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger. Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue has supplied the titles Somme le roi and Miroir des bonnes femmes.
Attribution from colophon: Cest livre compila et parfist uns freres des prescheeurs a la request du roi de france phelipe. En lan de lincarnacion nostre Seigneur...M.CC.lxxix (f. 84r).
Scribe has added marginal notes and headings; there are other occassional notes in a 15th-century hand.
First parts of the Somme are missing, text begins in the chapter on greed. A few other leaves are missing from text.
First and last leaves of Miroir des bonnes femmes are missing, text begins with Eve's fourth folly, "fol regart," looking at the tree of forbidden fruit.
Headings in upper outer corners of ms. identify sections for "des males fames" and "des bones fames" (f. 65v-83v).
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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