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Property / title as recorded: Le livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / uniform title as recorded: Livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Sidrac, active 13th century / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Aldridge, George, active 17th century / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855 / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / rank | |||||||||||||||
Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / qualifier | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / subject as recorded: Theology, Doctrinal--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Collation: Parchment, fol. i (later parchment) + 76 + i (later parchment) ; 1-512 6-78 ; signatures in modern arabic pencil, lower margin, first recto of each quire. Catchwords lower right corner, last verso each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner, each page. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Layout: 1 column, 42 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown ink, top and bottom writing lines ruled to outer edge. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Decoration: Introduction (fol. 1) and text (fol. 12v) begin with 5- to 7-line blue and red "puzzle" initial with red and purple filigree; 2-line initials in blue with red filigree throughout. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Binding: 19th-century crimson morocco over boards, gilt-fillet and -stamped corners, spine in compartments, title gilt on spine "SIDRAC," gilt fillet board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, vellum endpapers and conjugate flyleaves front and back. Outer margins of fol. 1-4 trimmed away, replaced by early paper with partially-visible countermark on fol. 2. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Origin: Written in the first half of the fourteenth century in northern France. An abbreviated version of the encyclopedic Livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences, a series of hundreds questions posed by a mythical King Bochus and answered by the philosopher Sidrac, on topics ranging from philosophy to theology, from science to love. This is the abbreviated version of what Weisel calls the... / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Provenance: The manuscript was in England by the fifteenth century, as evidenced by several inscriptions in English from that period (prayers and other notes), on fol. 5, 13, and 25. Seventeenth-century signature of "George Aldridge of Boothby Pagnal" (i.e. Boothby-Pagnell, Lincolnshire), fol. 47. Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 76) to Bertram, the Fourth... / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 546 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). BPL bookplate inside front cover, BPL embossed stamp on fol. 1 and 2. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Call number: MS q Med.31. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Former call number: MS G.31.60. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Bibliography: B. Weisel, "Die Überlieferung des 'Livre de Sidrac' in Handschriften und Drucken," Wissenliteratur im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit (Wiesbaden, 1993): 53-66. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Le livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences. | |||||||||||||||
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Sidrac, active 13th century | |||||||||||||||
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Aldridge, George, active 17th century | |||||||||||||||
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Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855 | |||||||||||||||
Property / associated name as recorded: Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855 / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / qualifier | |||||||||||||||
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 | |||||||||||||||
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Theology, Doctrinal--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources | |||||||||||||||
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Dialogues--Texts--Early works to 1800 | |||||||||||||||
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century: 14. century
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Extent: 76 leaves : parchment ; 250 x 150 (180 x 100) mm bound to 26 cm | |||||||||||||||
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. | |||||||||||||||
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Secundo folio: ...coes soulement a dieu... | |||||||||||||||
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Collation: Parchment, fol. i (later parchment) + 76 + i (later parchment) ; 1-512 6-78 ; signatures in modern arabic pencil, lower margin, first recto of each quire. Catchwords lower right corner, last verso each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner, each page. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Collation: Parchment, fol. i (later parchment) + 76 + i (later parchment) ; 1-512 6-78 ; signatures in modern arabic pencil, lower margin, first recto of each quire. Catchwords lower right corner, last verso each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner, each page. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Layout: 1 column, 42 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown ink, top and bottom writing lines ruled to outer edge. | |||||||||||||||
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Script: Written in a gothic textualis in brown ink with red rubrics. | |||||||||||||||
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Decoration: Introduction (fol. 1) and text (fol. 12v) begin with 5- to 7-line blue and red "puzzle" initial with red and purple filigree; 2-line initials in blue with red filigree throughout. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Decoration: Introduction (fol. 1) and text (fol. 12v) begin with 5- to 7-line blue and red "puzzle" initial with red and purple filigree; 2-line initials in blue with red filigree throughout. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Binding: 19th-century crimson morocco over boards, gilt-fillet and -stamped corners, spine in compartments, title gilt on spine "SIDRAC," gilt fillet board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, vellum endpapers and conjugate flyleaves front and back. Outer margins of fol. 1-4 trimmed away, replaced by early paper with partially-visible countermark on fol. 2. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Binding: 19th-century crimson morocco over boards, gilt-fillet and -stamped corners, spine in compartments, title gilt on spine "SIDRAC," gilt fillet board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, vellum endpapers and conjugate flyleaves front and back. Outer margins of fol. 1-4 trimmed away, replaced by early paper with partially-visible countermark on fol. 2. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Origin: Written in the first half of the fourteenth century in northern France. An abbreviated version of the encyclopedic Livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences, a series of hundreds questions posed by a mythical King Bochus and answered by the philosopher Sidrac, on topics ranging from philosophy to theology, from science to love. This is the abbreviated version of what Weisel calls the... | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Origin: Written in the first half of the fourteenth century in northern France. An abbreviated version of the encyclopedic Livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences, a series of hundreds questions posed by a mythical King Bochus and answered by the philosopher Sidrac, on topics ranging from philosophy to theology, from science to love. This is the abbreviated version of what Weisel calls the... / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Provenance: The manuscript was in England by the fifteenth century, as evidenced by several inscriptions in English from that period (prayers and other notes), on fol. 5, 13, and 25. Seventeenth-century signature of "George Aldridge of Boothby Pagnal" (i.e. Boothby-Pagnell, Lincolnshire), fol. 47. Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 76) to Bertram, the Fourth... | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Provenance: The manuscript was in England by the fifteenth century, as evidenced by several inscriptions in English from that period (prayers and other notes), on fol. 5, 13, and 25. Seventeenth-century signature of "George Aldridge of Boothby Pagnal" (i.e. Boothby-Pagnell, Lincolnshire), fol. 47. Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 76) to Bertram, the Fourth... / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 546 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). BPL bookplate inside front cover, BPL embossed stamp on fol. 1 and 2. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 546 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). BPL bookplate inside front cover, BPL embossed stamp on fol. 1 and 2. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Call number: MS q Med.31. | |||||||||||||||
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Latest revision as of 22:57, 23 August 2024
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444903, MS q Med.31)
- Livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences
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English | Le livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences. (DS3536) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444903, MS q Med.31) |
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28 November 2023
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Le livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences.
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Livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences
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Sidrac, active 13th century
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Aldridge, George, active 17th century
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Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
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Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
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Manuscripts, French--Massachusetts--Boston
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Theology, Doctrinal--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Dialogues--Texts--Early works to 1800
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between 1300 and 1350
14. century
1300Gregorian
1350Gregorian
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Extent: 76 leaves : parchment ; 250 x 150 (180 x 100) mm bound to 26 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In French.
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Title from opening rubric.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: ...coes soulement a dieu...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. i (later parchment) + 76 + i (later parchment) ; 1-512 6-78 ; signatures in modern arabic pencil, lower margin, first recto of each quire. Catchwords lower right corner, last verso each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner, each page.
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Layout: 1 column, 42 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown ink, top and bottom writing lines ruled to outer edge.
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Script: Written in a gothic textualis in brown ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: Introduction (fol. 1) and text (fol. 12v) begin with 5- to 7-line blue and red "puzzle" initial with red and purple filigree; 2-line initials in blue with red filigree throughout.
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Binding: 19th-century crimson morocco over boards, gilt-fillet and -stamped corners, spine in compartments, title gilt on spine "SIDRAC," gilt fillet board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, vellum endpapers and conjugate flyleaves front and back. Outer margins of fol. 1-4 trimmed away, replaced by early paper with partially-visible countermark on fol. 2.
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Origin: Written in the first half of the fourteenth century in northern France. An abbreviated version of the encyclopedic Livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences, a series of hundreds questions posed by a mythical King Bochus and answered by the philosopher Sidrac, on topics ranging from philosophy to theology, from science to love. This is the abbreviated version of what Weisel calls the...
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Provenance: The manuscript was in England by the fifteenth century, as evidenced by several inscriptions in English from that period (prayers and other notes), on fol. 5, 13, and 25. Seventeenth-century signature of "George Aldridge of Boothby Pagnal" (i.e. Boothby-Pagnell, Lincolnshire), fol. 47. Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 76) to Bertram, the Fourth...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 546 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). BPL bookplate inside front cover, BPL embossed stamp on fol. 1 and 2.
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Call number: MS q Med.31.
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Former call number: MS G.31.60.
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Bibliography: B. Weisel, "Die Überlieferung des 'Livre de Sidrac' in Handschriften und Drucken," Wissenliteratur im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit (Wiesbaden, 1993): 53-66.
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4 December 2023
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