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Title

L'evangile de l'enfance ...etc.

Other related names

• Charles VI, King of France, 1368-1422, attributed name
• Lefèvre, Jean, 1493-1565, translator

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 662
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874483503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122597406
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487448

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Old French, last section has some Latin

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1499

Place

France

Summary

Verse work relating apocryphal stories of the childhood of Jesus Christ, attributed to King Charles VI as translator; followed by the Gospel of Nicodemus, an apocryphal prose work on the Passion; and selections from Jean Lefèvre's translation of Cato's distichs (as identified by Anne D. Hedeman).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from title of predominant work (Zacour-Hirsch), other titles supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit, first work: Cy commancent les enfances nostre sire et partye des miraclez qu'il fist en son enfance et si commancent en la maniere qui ensuyt par vers rimes translatez de latin en francois par le roy Charles VIe (f. 1r). Explicit: Que nous puissions tous a luy plaire/Aussi a la Vierge marie/Amen amen chascun en dye (f. 40v).
   
• Incipit, second work: Cy ensieut la passion de nostre doulx Sauveur Jhesucrist en rommans, lequel nous doint vivre en cest siecle en telle maniere comme il scet que mestier nous est et quant larme partyra de nostre corps qu'il lez vueille recevoir en son saint paradise. Amen (f. 41v). Explicit: Et quant les eveques ont oy la vraye reson de Nycodemus ilz se mettent les chaperons devant les yeulx et sen vont en leurs maysons ne onques puiz ung tout ceul mot ne parlement ne respondirent. Explicit gloriosissima passio domini nostri Ihesu Christi (f. 97r).
   
• Incipit, third work: Inter convivas fac sis sermone modestus/Ne dicare loquax dum vis bonus ipse videre/Attempre toy quant tu seras a table/Que ne parles trop vray ne de fable (f. 99r). Explicit: Cum tibi continguat studio cognoscere multa / Fac discas multa vita nil velle doceri (f. 104v).
   
• Moderate to severe oxidation of ink on some folios.
   
• See Penn Ms Fr 41: A Codicological Study by Anne D. Hedeman (1979), typescript shelved with Ms. Codex 662, for codicological description of the manuscript.
   
• Boulton, Maureen Barry McCann. The Old French Évangile de l'enfance : an edition (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984) discusses the first text.
   
• Ford, Alvin E. L'Évangile de Nicodème, les versions courtes en ancien franc̦ais et en prose (Genève: Droz, 1973) discusses the second text.
   
• Ulrich, Jakob, ed. Der Cato Jean Le Fevre's, Romanische Forschungen 15 (1904), pp. 70-106.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet 2774.

Extent

104 leaves : 280 x 200 (176 x 140) mm. bound to 295 x 215 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 104 + i; 1-4¹², 5-6¹⁰, 7¹¹ (+1), 8¹⁰, 9¹⁰ (-10), 10⁶ (all folios inserted); [1-104]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century[?] red velvet (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 23 long lines; frame-ruled in lead; chancery folio format.

Decoration

First and last work have strapwork initials in red, black, and yellow, a number with grotesque faces (for example, f. 29v, 32r, 35v, 39v, 99v, 100r-v); 2-line initials and rubrics in red in first and second work.

Script

Written in a French lettre bâtarde (Zacour-Hirsch) by one or two hands.

Provenance

• Ex libris Congregationis Oratorii à [Cleris?], 1674 (note, f. 1r).
   
• Sold at auction in Paris, 7 Nov. 1934, lot 615.
   
• Purchased, 1959.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Christian
• France
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — L?e?vangile de l?enfance [in verse], f. 1r
• fol. 41r — L?e?vangile de Nicode?me, f. 41r
• fol. 99r — Catonis disticha (incomplete), f. 99r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner note, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, Face, f. 1v
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 3r
• fol. 3r — Decorated ascender, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial, Initial C, Banner, f. 5r
• fol. 5r — Decorated descender, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Decorated initial, Initial E, Face, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial, Initial C, Face, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 9r
• fol. 9r — Decorated descender, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 10r
• fol. 10v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 10v
• fol. 11r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 11r
• fol. 11r — Decorated ascender, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Decorated initial, Initial C, Face, f. 11v
• fol. 11v — Framed catchword, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial, Initial J, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Decorated initial, Initial P, Face, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Decorated initial, Initial V, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 16v
• fol. 18r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 18v
• fol. 19r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, Face, f. 19r
• fol. 19v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 19v
• fol. 20r — Decorated initial, Initial J, f. 20r
• fol. 20v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 20v
• fol. 21r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 21r
• fol. 21v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 21v
• fol. 22r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 22r
• fol. 22r — Decorated initial, Initial J, f. 22r
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial, Initial V, f. 22v
• fol. 22v — Decorated catchwords, f. 22v
• fol. 24v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 25r
• fol. 25v — Decorated initial, Initial D, Face, f. 25v
• fol. 26r — Decorated initial, Initial M, Face, f. 26r
• fol. 26v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 26v
• fol. 27r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 27r
• fol. 28r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 28r
• fol. 28v — Decorated initial, Initial V, f. 28v
• fol. 29r — Decorated initial, Initial J, f. 29r
• fol. 29v — Decorated initial, Initial E, Face and arm, f. 29v
• fol. 30r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 30r
• fol. 30v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 30v
• fol. 31r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 31r
• fol. 31v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 31v
• fol. 32r — Decorated initial, Initial A, Faces, f. 32r
• fol. 35r — Decorated initial, Initial J, f. 35r
• fol. 35v — Decorated initial, Initial B, Face, f. 35v
• fol. 36r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 36r
• fol. 37v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 37v
• fol. 38r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 38r
• fol. 38v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 38v
• fol. 39r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 39r
• fol. 39v — Decorated initial, Initial A, Face, f. 39v
• fol. 40r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 40r
• fol. 41r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 41r
• fol. 42r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 42r
• fol. 71r — Decorated initial, Initial J, Face, f. 71r
• fol. 87r — Decorated ascender, f. 87r
• fol. 91r — Decorated ascenders, f. 91r
• fol. 97r — Decorated initial, Initial E, Face, f. 97r
• fol. 97r — Decorated descenders, Banner, f. 97r
• fol. 99r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 99r
• fol. 99v — Decorated initial, Initial U, Face, f. 99v
• fol. 99v — Decorated initial, Initial D, Face, f. 99v
• fol. 99v — Decorated initial, Initial N, Face, f. 99v
• fol. 100r — Decorated initial, Initial D, Face, f. 100r
• fol. 100v — Decorated initial, Initial C, Face, f. 100v
• fol. 100v — Decorated initial, Initial V, Face, f. 100v
• fol. 100v — Decorated initial, Initial F, Face, f. 100v
• fol. 101r — Decorated initial, Initial U, Face, f. 101r
• fol. 101r — Decorated initial, Initial D, Face, f. 101r
• fol. 101v — Decorated initial, Initial P, Face, f. 101v
• fol. 101v — Decorated initial, Initial D, Face, f. 101v
• fol. 102r — Decorated initial, Initial H, Face, f. 102r
• fol. 102r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 102r
• fol. 102v — Decorated initial, Initial P, Face, f. 102v
• fol. 102v — Decorated initial, Initial N, Face, f. 102v
• fol. 102v — Decorated initial, Initial D, Face, f. 102v
• fol. 104r — Decorated initial, Initial D, Face, f. 104r
• fol. 104r — Decorated initial, Initial S, Face, f. 104r