Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Gift
- Kinship
- Community
- Manuscripts
- Conclusion
- Tables
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 Descriptions of the manuscripts referred to in Chapters Seven and Eight
- Appendix 2 Complete list of rubrics in the Oxford MS version of the Poème moral
- Appendix 3 Passages transcribed from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canonici, Miscellaneous 74
- Appendix 4 Saints' Lives
- Bibliography
- Index
- Already Published
Appendix 1 - Descriptions of the manuscripts referred to in Chapters Seven and Eight
from Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Gift
- Kinship
- Community
- Manuscripts
- Conclusion
- Tables
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 Descriptions of the manuscripts referred to in Chapters Seven and Eight
- Appendix 2 Complete list of rubrics in the Oxford MS version of the Poème moral
- Appendix 3 Passages transcribed from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canonici, Miscellaneous 74
- Appendix 4 Saints' Lives
- Bibliography
- Index
- Already Published
Summary
The Campsey Manuscript (London, British Library, Additional 70513)
The volume, which measures 254mm by 192mm, is written on vellum and contains 267 folios, of which the last two are blank. The current binding dates from the nineteenth century and is in diced brown leather with a crowned letter ‘P’ stamped in gold at the centre of both covers. As Russell points out, ‘The heraldic bookplate of the sixth Duke of Portland on folio i suggests that the binding was done by William Cavendish-Bentinck some time after he succeeded as Duke in 1879, and prior to the exhibition of the MS at Welbeck in 1903’.
Writing in the manuscript appears in two columns of 32 to 34 lines to the page. The scribal hand used in the first quire of the manuscript is distinct from that of the other quires, and has been dated as early fourteenth-century; quires 2–32 have been dated as late thirteenth-century. The note at the top of the first folio, ‘Cest livere est a couent de Campisse’, is in the same hand as the first quire of the manuscript. Despite the break between items 12 and 13, the thirteenth-century section of the Campsey manuscript (ff. 9–267), was written as a single compilation; this can be seen from the repetition of certain codicological features such as ruling and the style of historiated initials. All texts other than the Vie de Sainte Catherine (the last item in the collection) are written across quire divisions.
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- Medieval Saints' LivesThe Gift, Kinship and Community in Old French Hagiography, pp. 235 - 237Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2008