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Title

Somme le roi

Authors

• Laurent, d'Orléans, active 1279

Call number

Ms. Codex 659
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874453503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122480049
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487445

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

ca. 1300

Place

France

Summary

Comprised of two works, both fragments, in one hand: Somme des vices et vertus, also known as Somme le roi of Frère Laurent (f. 1-63 plus 84); and Miroir des bonnes femmes (f. 64-83); plus a short text on the final folio, Comment l'en se doit avoir a la messe (f. 84v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger. Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue has supplied the titles Somme le roi and Miroir des bonnes femmes.
   
• 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. 84r).
   
• Scribe has added marginal notes and headings; there are other occassional notes in a 15th-century hand.
   
• First parts of the Somme are missing, text begins in the chapter on greed. A few other leaves are missing from text.
   
• First and last leaves of Miroir des bonnes femmes are missing, text begins with Eve's fourth folly, "fol regart," looking at the tree of forbidden fruit.
   
• Headings in upper outer corners of ms. identify sections for "des males fames" and "des bones fames" (f. 65v-83v).
   

Extent

85 leaves : 195 x 134 (148 x 107) mm. bound to 207 x 148 mm

Foliation

Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 85 + ii (modern paper); [1-85]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment :

Binding

Late 19th- or 20th-century vellum. (Misbound: ff. 1-4 belongs after f. 29, f. 84 belongs after f. 63.).

Layout

Written in one hand, in one column, usually 31 lines.

Provenance

• Sold by Laurence Witten, 1959.
   
• Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald.
   

Subjects topical

• Christian ethics--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Christian women--Conduct of life
• Vices--Early works to 1800
• Virtues--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, French--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• Christian
• France
• Ethics

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