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La vie des anciens peres — c. 1300

MS. Douce 154

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Title

La vie des anciens peres — c. 1300

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 154

Date

c. 1300

Language

Old French (842-ca. 1400)

Contents

La vie des anciens peres
(fol. 1) Rubric: De deux hermites compagnons, dont l'un fit fornication
(fol. 3) Rubric: De cele, qui encopa lermite
(fol. 5) Rubric: De lermite, qui arsit ses doiz
(fol. 7v) Rubric: Dou juif, qui fut gete ou for de verre boillant
(fol. 10) Rubric: Dou prevost daquilee.
(fol. 12v) Rubric: Dou borjois de rome, qui chastia son fuiz
(fol. 15v) Rubric: De saint paulin, qui rachetoit les chaitis
(fol. 18) Rubric: De la fole fame, qui lessa son reclus por venir au monde
(fol. 21) Rubric: Cest de la dame de rome, qui ot enfant de son fuiz
(fol. 24v) Rubric: De lermite, qui senivra
(fol. 27) Rubric: De celui, qui rachata le fuiz au chevalier
(fol. 29v) Rubric: De lusurier, qui fut sauve
(fol. 32) Rubric: De la none, qui enraia por le chol quelle menia
(fol. 33) Rubric: De lermite et dou colon
(fol. 36) Rubric: De celui, a cui limage notre dame enclina
(fol. 39) Rubric: De celui, qui gita lesceipeaus en lort son voisin
(fol. 42) Rubric: De celui, qui de disoit [sic] 'miserere tui deus'
(fol. 44v) Rubric: De la fole fame, qui se converti
(fol. 48) Rubric: De la premiere ymage nostre dame
(fol. 52) Rubric: De celui, qui contrefist lymage au deauble
(fol. 55) Rubric: Dou prestre, qui perdit loite au sacrament de lautel le jor de noel
(fol. 57v) Rubric: De Merlin
(fol. 61) Rubric: De lempereriz de Rome
(fol. 66) Rubric: De lermite, qui sen ala hors de son reclus et sauva le larron
(fol. 69) Rubric: Dune segrestaine, qui sen ala o son lecheor
(fol. 72) Rubric: Du pauvre clerc mort, de cui issoit un flor de lis, etc.
(fol. 73v) Rubric: Dou deable, qui fut sur la coe de la robe dune dame, etc.
(fol. 75) Rubric: De celui, qui le boterel prist a la levre
(fol. 77) Rubric: De celui, qui ne pot emplir le baril
(fol. 79) Rubric: De la none, qui fut grosse
(fol. 82v) Rubric: Dou preudome, qui morut si ne le pot len enterrer qui gele avoit
(fol. 85v) Rubric: Dun due, nomme Malaquin
(fol. 88) Rubric: Dou moine, qui a la voaix de son pere si vit le deable sus les murs de la ville
(fol. 91) Rubric: Dou saint home, qui ala preschier par la terre
(fol. 93) Rubric: Dou clere lecheor, qui devint prestre
(fol. 95v) Rubric: De quatre reclus
(fol. 97v) Rubric: Du roi d'Egypte, qui epousa la fille de son chastelain
(fol. 102) Rubric: Du jardinier d'Egypte, qui voler coper son pied, etc.
(fol. 103v) Rubric: Du roi d'Egypte et du fils de son seneschal, &c.
(fol. 109v) Rubric: De trois clers d'Egypte, etc.
(fol. 116) Rubric: Des juifs, qui batirent un crucifix
(fol. 118) Rubric: Voyage de S. Paul aux enfers

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 124leaves

Decoration

Coloured capitals

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Provenance

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

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Title

Forty-two religious tales or fables, in French verse

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 154

Summary

Beg. 'Incipit Vita Patrum': the first is about two hermits, beg. 'En nom de Dieu, rois Ihesu Crist.'.

Date

written in about A.D. 1300

Language

French

Physical facet

On parchment, with coloured capitals, etc.

Physical extent

124 leaves, in double columns

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Douce Manuscripts

Forty-two religious tales or fables, in French verse

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