'Thomas', Robert Grosseteste, Marie de France — c. 13th century, middle; English (?)
MS. Douce 132
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Description
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Title
'Thomas', Robert Grosseteste, Marie de France — c. 13th century, middle; English (?)
Guillaume le Clerc — c. 13th century, middle; English (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 132
Date
c. 13th century, middle
Language
Anglo-Norman
Contents
Physical extent
82 fols.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Provenance
Francis Douce, 1757–1834
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Title
French romance
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 132
Summary
Made up of two MSS., comprises:
(fol. 1). 'Hic est de Horn bono milite', the romance of King. Horn, in French verse: beg. 'Seignurs oi auez le uers del parchemin': there is a blank space for twenty-seven lines on fol. 18. The last line but one indicates that the author's name was Thomas.
(fol. 23a) The romance called Le Château d'Amour attributed to Robert Grosseteste ('Grosseteste' is written at the head in a 14th cent hand): beg. 'Ky bien pense bien poet dire.' On fol. 22v is a list of all the 'Tractatus in lingua Romana secundum dominum R. [Grosseteste] episcopum Lincolniensem' in the same hand which has supplied Latin notes to the first few pages of the poem.
(fol. 35) The Fables attributed to Marie de France, in French verse: beg. 'Cil ki seuent de lettrure', headed in a 14th cent. hand 'Ysope.'.
(fol. 63) A Bestiary, in French verse, with some illustrations: beg. 'Qui bien comence e bien define': the translator's name occurs as Guillaume. On fol. 82 are some medical recipes (13th cent.) in Latin, in an English hand. On fol. 82v is an interesting 13th cent. note of books borrowed from the owner of this volume, among which is no. 21711 below.
'Part of an old library in a house at Edwardstone near Sudbury, now belonging to mr. Waring', Douce's note: see no. 21711 below.
Date
written in about the middle of the 13th cent. probably in England
Language
French
Physical facet
On parchment
Physical extent
86 leaves, in double columns
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