Somme le roi (DS1573) (Q9129)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9924874453503681, Ms. Codex 659, https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874453503681)
- Somme des vices et vertus
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Somme le roi (DS1573) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9924874453503681, Ms. Codex 659, https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874453503681) |
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19 September 2023
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Somme des vices et vertus
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Laurent, d'Orléans, active 1279
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Manuscripts, French--14th century
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Christian women--Conduct of life
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Christian ethics--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
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circa 1300
14. century
1300Gregorian
1300Gregorian
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Extent: 85 leaves : parchment ; 195 x 134 (148 x 107) mm bound to 207 x 148 mm
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Ms. codex.
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Title for manuscript from title for predominant work supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); title for second work, Miroir des bonnes femmes, also supplied (Grigsby).
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Collation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 85 + ii (modern paper); 14 212 (-1, -12) 312 48 512 612 (-1) 78 (-2) 812 (-1, -2) 912 (-11, -12) singleton; [1-85]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Foliation in this record diverges from that in Grisgsby articles, written at a time when the manuscript was foliated with a leaf skipped, 1-23, i, 24-84. Link to collation model at end of...
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Layout: Written in one hand, in one column, usually 31 lines.
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Decoration: Rubricated, with alternating red and blue capitals.
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Binding: Late 19th- or 20th-century vellum. (Misbound: f. 1-4 should follow f. 29 in the middle of the fourth quire (f. 27-34), f. 85 should follow f. 64.).
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Origin: Written in France, circa 1300. Date 1279 (f. 85r) is date of composition.
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Attribution from colophon: Cest livre compila et parfist uns freres des prescheeurs a la request du roi de france phelipe. En lan de lincarnacion nostre Seigneur...M.CC.lxxix (f. 85r).
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Scribe has added marginal notes and headings; there are other occassional notes in a 15th-century hand.
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First parts of the Somme are missing, text begins in the chapter on greed. A few other leaves are missing from text.
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First and last leaves of Miroir des bonnes femmes are missing, text begins just before the beginning of Eve's fourth folly, "fol regart," looking at the tree of forbidden fruit, continues through the 35 examples of bad women, and breaks off in the first example of good women, also Eve.
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Headings in upper outer corners of manuscript identify sections for "des males fames" and "des bones fames" (f. 65r-84v).
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Sold by Laurence Witten, 1959.
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Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, not before 1961.
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28 April 2025
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