Robert of Greatham, Edmund of Abingdon, Simund de Freine — c. 1300; English
MS. Douce 210
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Robert of Greatham, Edmund of Abingdon, Simund de Freine — c. 1300; English
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 210
Place of origin
English
Date
c. 1300
Language
Anglo-Norman
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii + 61leaves, in double columns
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Provenance
Francis Douce, 1757–1834
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Title
Moral and religious pieces in French, almost all in verse
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 210
Summary
A full account will be found in the Bulletin de la Société des Anciens Textes Français, 1880, No. 1, p. 46: the more important are:
(fol. 1) Allegorical poem on the state of society, compared to members of the body, imperfect at beginning and end: beg. 'Kele ne porrat iamais failler | Tant come en sai se voleut tener': fol. 2 is mutilated: and fols. 3, 13 damaged.
(fol. 18) 'Ici comence le traitee | En romanz del Cheualer De', i.e. Chevalier de Dieu: beg. 'Tels parolent de Cheualers.' A poem named Corset on fol. 22v beg. 'A son treschier seignor Alain | De part Rober son chapelain': one leaf is wanting after fol. 12, and four after fol. 34. On fol. 35 is a fragment of the Roman des Romans.
(fol. 35) 'Ceo est le liure ke aprent de viure parfitement. Si est apele le Miroir Seint Edmond le confessour', the Speculum Ecclesiae of st. Edmund Riche, in prose: text beg. 'Videte vocacionem vestram, etc. Cez motz de la postle parcenent.' On fols. 43v-44v are some astronomical figures.
(fol. 45) 'Ci comence Noreture | Curteisie & grant mesure ...', by Urbain le courtois: text beg. 'Vn sage home de grant valour.' Some hymns follow, in French (fol. 45v); and 'De sancto Blasio Antiphona' in Latin (fol. 46v); after which are two Latin pieces about Judas Iscariot (fol. 46v) and Pilate (fol. 47). At fol. 51v are some Latin medical 'Pronostica', in verse.
(fol. 48) 'Coment homme se gardera par le conseille Gawin [Gauvein] de femme prendre un espouse': beg. 'Benoit soit Dieu omnipotent.'.
(fol. 51v) 'Ici comence la Ròmaunce Dame Fortunee': prologue beg. 'Solace dime & toute ire': the first lines give 'Simund de Freine [Simon de Fresne] me fist', acrostically.
Date
written in about A.D. 1300, in England
Language
French
Physical facet
On parchment, imperfect
Physical extent
61 leaves, in double columns
Custodial history
'Bought at Lord Donegal's sale', A.D. 1800.
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Collection contents
Moral and religious pieces in French, almost all in verse
