(Q47789)
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23 July 2024
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Sidrac, active 13th century
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Bateman, Richard Thomas, 1712 or 1713-
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Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914
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Olschki, Leo S. 1861-1940
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Manuscripts, Medieval--France--1350-1400
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Manuscripts, Medieval--France--1300-1350
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between 1300 and 1320.
14. century
1300Gregorian
1320Gregorian
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Extent: 1 v. (160 leaves) ; 28 cm.
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Leaves 1-159r contain Livre de Sydrac; leaves 159r-160v contain Raoul de Houdenc's Roman des eles de courtoisie (a fragment of 252 lines).
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Manuscript in a gothic book hand in red and blue ink, in two columns, with decorated initials in red and blue and 9 illuminated initials with burnished gold and extensions (leaves 13, 15, 22, 34v, 85, 105v, 109, 125v, and 137; blank space for possible initial on leaf 122).
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Written in Northern France, not earlier than 1300 and probably ca. 1320.
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Limp vellum cover with separate (later?) vellum strip pasted over spine; pastedowns are from a much larger manuscript (13th cent., in Latin, on a legal topic, main text in two columns, with glosses and red and blue paragraph marks).
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Title from front cover.
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Sydrac incipits: Chi commencent le capitre et les questions (leaf 1) and La pourveanche nostre Signeur le pere tout pouissant (leaf 13); explicit, Sydrac nous ensengne et monstre [à l'?]honneur Dou cors et pourfit des ames. amen (leaf 159).
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Sydrac text differs greatly from that published in Sylvie-Marie Steiner, Le livre de Sidrach ([Melun, France]: Association Mémoires, 1994).
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Gift of David P. Wheatland, 1991.
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Purchased by Wheatland from H.P. Kraus; Leo Olschki (1920); Herman Suchier (1896); bookplate of Nicolas Joseph Foucault; leaf one annotated: "OR.F Bateman's Sale 1774" (identified in dealer's note as the 1774 May 3 Christie's sale of the library of the Hon. Richard Bateman); annotation on Foucault bookplate: "J A Fox [Jc] Bacon [or Becan?] Auction April 29, 1777 Pr -.8.0"; ownership(?) mark...
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25 July 2024
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