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Didactic poems, written in France.

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Identifier: MS.9998

Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) 'Facetus', sometimes attributed to John of Garland, but described as anonymous by B Hauréau, ‘Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale’, volume xxvii, part 2 (1885), pages 17-20. See also H Walther, ‘Initia carminum ... medii aevi posterioris’ (Göttingen, 1959), volume i, number 3692. The first ten lines are missing and the text begins 'Et sic omne bonum tibi plenius addicietur'. A modern owner has written the missing lines on the preceding flyleaf. The explicit gives the title as 'liber de moribus'. (Folio 1.) (ii) 'Speculum puerorum.' H Walther, ‘Initia carminum ... medii aevi posterioris’ (Göttingen, 1959), volume i, number 3690. Unlike sections (i) and (iii), this was not one of the texts of the ‘Auctores octo morales’. (Folio 5.) (iii) 'De contemptu mundi', sometimes attributed to John of Garland and to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. It is printed among the latter's suppositious works in J P Migne, ‘Patrologiae cursus completus ... latina’, volume clxxxiv, 1307-1314. B Hauréau, ‘Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale’, volume xxvii, part 2 (1885), pages 20-25, attributes it to Bernard of Morlas, who also wrote a longer poem of the same name. H Walther, ‘Initia carminum ... medii aevi posterioris’ (Göttingen, 1959), volume i, number 2521. (Folio 13.)

Written in littera gothica textualis, with initials and one rubric (folio 5) in red. An erased inscription on folio 1 ends 'liber de moribus'. There is another erased inscription on folio 19 verso, together with a few lines of French verse in fourteenth-century littera cursiva. These are part of an Arthurian romance and include the lines 'en trespassant me dist amis regarde Cis chasteals est la perilhouze garde'.

Dates

  • Creation: Late 13th century.

Conditions Governing Access

Normal access conditions apply.

Conditions Governing Use

Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

Extent

27 Leaves ; 155 x 116 millimetres.

Language of Materials

Latin

Arrangement

viii (paper) + 19 folios.

Collation: 1⁸, 2¹⁰ (+ 1).

Foliated 116-134 in a fifteenth-century hand, and 64-76, 79-84, in a modern hand. Signatures in Roman numerals in red ink on folios 2-4.

26 lines (sections i and ii); 27-31 lines (iii).

Custodial History

The manuscript was number 113 of the items offered for sale in E P Goldschmidt's list 26, [?1937]. Number 6 (Aesop) of that list was probably part of the same manuscript.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1968, by H P Morison, M.C., LL.D.

Physical Description

Vellum.

Genre / Form

Title
National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
Author
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository

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