Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Chansonnier.

Authors

• Brisebare, -approximately 1340
• Deschamps, Eustache, 1346?-1406
• Granson, Oton de, -1397
• Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377
• Vitry, Philippe de, 1291-1361
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 902
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935591633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78573775
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3hm52m0n http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/37

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

1400?

Place

France

Summary

Collection of 310 poems by Guillaume de Machaut, Oton de Grandson, Brisebare de Douai, Eustache Deschamps, Philippe de Vitry, and others.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
   
• Five lines from sonnet CXLVI of Petrarch's Rime (f. 94r).
   
• Incomplete index (f. 96r).
   
• Inscription on f. 1r: "Droit est ferme," (Isabella of Bavaria?).
   
• Description of manuscript by bookseller Laurence Witten on file in Library.
   

Extent

101 leaves : 300 x 240 (195 x 160) mm bound to 306 x 250 mm

Collation

Parchment, i (modern paper) + 101 + i (modern paper); 1-13⁸ 14⁶(-1 in position 1);signed a-i, k-n, with possible contemporary signatures visible for b, e, f, and h (f. 9r, 33r, 41r, 57r) and others supplied in pencil, lower right first recto; 1-68, 68-98 [99-100], foliation in black ink, upper right recto, in the later hand of the compiler of the incomplete index (f. 97r). Link to collation model at end of record.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern leather, "French lyric poetry Machaut Grandson" on spine.

Layout

Written in two columns of 36-38 lines in brown ink with red used for headings and capital strokes.

Decoration

Several decorated (penwork) initials and one inhabited initial with a face (f. 1r).

Script

Written by several similar cursive hands.

Provenance

• Held by the firm of Leo S. Olschki (Florence, Italy), 1932.
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1954.
   

Subjects topical

• French poetry--To 1500
• French poetry

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• anthologies
• Poetry
• Manuscripts, French,--14th century
• Manuscripts, French,--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• 15th century
• French
• France
• Literature
• Poetry

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner note, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Inhabited initial, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Penwork initial, f. 1v
• fol. 8r — Penwork initial, f. 8r
• fol. 14r — Penwork initial, f. 14r
• fol. 17r — Penwork initial, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Penwork initial, f. 17v
• fol. 18r — Penwork initial, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Penwork initial, f. 18v
• fol. 19v — Penwork initial, f. 19v
• fol. 20v — Penwork initial, f. 20v
• fol. 21v — Penwork initial, f. 21v
• fol. 22v — Penwork initial, f. 22v
• fol. 23r — Penwork initial, f. 23r
• fol. 23v — Penwork initial, f. 23v
• fol. 25r — Penwork initial, f. 25r
• fol. 26r — Penwork initial, f. 26r
• fol. 28v — Penwork initial, f. 28v
• fol. 29v — Penwork initial, f. 29v
• fol. 30r — Penwork initial, f. 30r
• fol. 31r — Penwork initial, f. 31r
• fol. 32r — Penwork initial, f. 32r
• fol. 32v — Penwork initial, f. 32v
• fol. 33r — Penwork initial, f. 33r
• fol. 36v — Penwork initial, f. 36v
• fol. 37r — Penwork initial, f. 37r
• fol. 37v — Penwork initial, f. 37v
• fol. 38v — Penwork initial, f. 38v
• fol. 39r — Penwork initial, f. 39r
• fol. 40v — Penwork initial, f. 40v
• fol. 41r — Penwork initial, f. 41r
• fol. 42v — Penwork initial, f. 42v
• fol. 44v — Penwork initial, f. 44v
• fol. 46r — Penwork initial, f. 46r
• fol. 48v — Penwork initial, f. 48v
• fol. 50v — Penwork initial, f. 50v
• fol. 52v — Penwork initial, f. 52v
• fol. 53r — Penwork initial, f. 53r
• fol. 65r — Penwork initial, f. 65r