Troubadour songs — 13th century, second half; Italian (?)

Title

Troubadour songs — 13th century, second half; Italian (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 269

Date

13th century, second half

Language

Old Provençal (to 1500)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

2+ cclxvi pages

Decoration

Coloured capitals.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Provenance

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Title

164 Songs of Troubadours

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 269

Summary

For forty of the songs the names are given, seven songs being anonymous, in Provençal: the authors of whom there are more than four songs are:

Peire Vidal (pp. ii, ccxlvii; 13)

Folket de Marxella (p. xxiii: 10)

Bernard da Ventador (p. xxxix: 17)

Peirol d'Alvergna (p. lxx: 19)

Gonselm Faidiz de Lemosi (p. xcviii: 11)

Arnald de Miroill (p. cxvi: 8)

Ranbaut de Vaqera (p. cxxvi: 5)

Raimon de Miraval (p. cxxxvi: 5)

Cadenet (p. cli: 7)

N'Aimeric de Pigugnan (p. clxi: 6)

The first leaf (pp. i-ii) is fragmentary, and contains part of the song Lo rei Richart. Descriptions of this valuable MS. will be found in m. Paul Meyer's Rapports, Ire partie (1871), pp. 160, 247: Romanische Studien ii (1877), pp. 590, 658: on p. cclii of the MS. is a 15th cent. list of its contents, and there are modern notes. A facsimile of part of p. ccviii is in the 1840 Catalogue.

Date

written perhaps at the close of the 13th cent. in Italy

Language

Old Provençal (to 1500)

Physical facet

On parchment, with coloured capitals, etc.

Physical extent

2 pages

Custodial history

From a copy of this MS. in the Arsenal library at Paris (old mark B. L. F. 55, ii, now no. 3092) it is known that the volume was owned by Nicolas Claude de Peiresc (d. 1637) and afterwards by m. de Mazaugues (d. 1743). Douce states that it belonged to the rev. Thomas Crofts, at whose sale in 1783 it 'was purchased by mr. Baynes, on whose death it fell into the hands of sir John Ingleby.' Douce bought it of mr. Joye.