Hélie de Boron — before 1500; Flemish
MS. Douce 383
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Hélie de Boron — before 1500; Flemish
Collectar — 15th century
Calendar — c. 1400; English
Law dictionary — 1338; Italian, Pisa
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 383
Date
1338
c. 1400
15th century
before 1500
Language
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
Latin
Contents
Musical notation
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Provenance
Francis Douce, 1757–1834
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Title
Fragments, and a calendar
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 383
Summary
Made up of four MSS., comprising:
(fol. 1) (French, late 15th cent., in double columns) Leaves from a finely illuminated MS. of the romance of Gyron le Courtois by Hélie de Borron, numbered i, xxxvi, lxviii, lxx, lxxxvi, xcv, c, cxvii, cxviii, cxxxiv, cxlii, clx, clxxviii, cxcii, cxcviii, ccxxxiv, i ('Icy commence le quart volume de Guiron le courtois ...'). The arms on fols. 1, 17 are Nassau and Vianden quartered, and point to Engelbrecht count of Nassau (d. 1504). The leaves were selected for the miniatures they bear.
(fol. 19) (Latin, 15th cent., in double columns) Leaves from a Collectar, containing the chapters and collects of the Hour Services, antiphons with music, etc.
(fol. 41) (Latin, about A.D. 1400) A calendar from a volume written for 'Johannes Fyschere . qui fecit fieri hunc librum . & dedit ecclesie beate Marie de Nottele' (obit, Sept. 9). The obits are recorded of 'abbas Nicolaus [Amcotes?]', Apr. 18; 'abbas Thomas', Apr. 25; 'Ermengardis comitissa fundatrix nostra', May 13; 'Walter Gyffard [dux Buckinghamiae] fundator noster', Sept. 17; 'Dedicacio ecclesie beate Marie de Nottele', Oct. 20. There are also many notes of births (with sponsors' names) of the family of Pygott, 1541-52.
(fol. 47) (Latin, written in A.D. 1338 at Pisa, in double columns) Fragment (Usura-end) of a law dictionary (Repertorium utriusque juris) with two 'Questiones' and part of the Index. ' Consummatum fuit hoc opus in ciuitate Pisana anno Domini M°.ccc°.xxx°.viii°. mense Decembris ...'.
Date
written in the 14th and 15th cent.
Language
Latin
French
Physical facet
On parchment
Physical extent
60 Leaves
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Collection contents
Fragments, and a calendar
