[Treatises in Anglo-Norman verse].

Creator:

Biblesworth, Walter de
Bozon, Nicole, fl. 1300-1320
Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
Hues, de Tabarie

Published/Created:

England ;
[circa 1300-1349]

Physical Description:

iv l. + 67 l. + ii l. : parchment ; 208 x 135 mm.

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.osborn.a56.htm

Notes:

Ownership inscriptions of Sir Henry Sharington (d. 1581).
Script: Gothic bookhand.
Decoration: some rubrication of initials.
Binding: contemporary chemise binding of white leather over corded boards.
In Anglo-Norman French with Middle English glosses and annotations.
From the library of Lacock Abbey. From the library of Sir Henry Sharington. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christies sale 8002, lot 12) on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund and the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.

Abstract:

Manuscript, on parchment, in two Gothic bookhands, containig copies of Walter of Biblesworth (Bibbesworth), Le tretiz ff.1-27v; Nicholas Bozon (c.1280-1320), Les proverbes de bons enseignements, here called Liber de proverbiis sapientie, ff.28-40v; Hue de Tabarie, Ordre de la chevalerie ff.42-53v; Le mariage des ix filles du diable, often attributed to Robert Grosseteste (1170-1253), bishop of Lincoln but here described as St Maurice, bishop of Paris's translation from the Latin, ff.54-67. The text of Le tretiz contains numerous interlineations and side notes in Middle English.

Topics:

Administration of estates--Early works to 1800
Anglo-Norman dialect
Chivalry--Early works to 1800
Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
French language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800
French language--To 1500
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Topics:

Biblesworth, Walter de
Lacock Abbey (England)--Ownership
Sharington, Henry,--Sir,--d. 1581--Autograph

Genre:

Manuscripts, Medieval--England--13th century.--local

Format:

Mixed Material

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Osborn a56

Orbis Record:

11073803

Orbis Barcode:

39002094201960

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection

oid pointer:

16025468

Citation:

Walter de Biblesworth, Treatiz de Gualter de Biblesworth. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

11394885

PID:

digcoll:3973367