Sydrac et Bocthus; le livre de Sydrac de toute sciences (DS11229) (Q47789)

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Sydrac et Bocthus; le livre de Sydrac de toute sciences (DS11229)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Harvard University (990079090720203941, MS Fr 395, https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990079090720203941/catalog)

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    23 July 2024
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    Sydrac et Bocthus; le livre de Sydrac de toute sciences
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--France--1350-1400
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--France--1300-1350
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    Science--France--Early works to 1800
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    between 1300 and 1320.
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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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