Beinecke MS 121                                                      France, s. XV^^ex
Livre du roy Modus, etc.

     1. ff. 1r-58v    Au temps que le Roy modus donnoit doctrine de tous
     deduits Il disoit a ses aprentis...Aussy est il de la char de lhomme.
     Explicit Modus et Ratio.

          G. Tilander, ed., Les livres du roy Modus et de la royne
          Ratio in
     Societe des anciens textes francais (Paris, 1932) v. 1, pp. 12-310.

     2. f. 59r-v    Je suis soullart le blond et le beau chien courant/ De
     mon temps le meilleur et le mieulx parchassant/...chie le grand
     seneschal ou elle [sic] sera finee. [Followed by a list of 32 names of
     dogs, both masculine and feminine forms.] f. 60r-v blank, except for
     drawing (see below)

          G. Tilander, ed., Jacques de Breze. La chasse. Les dits du bon
     Chien Souillard et les louanges de Madame Anne de France (Lund, 1959)
     p. 51, MS N; p. 59: reproduction of f. 59r; pp. 56-68; p. 96. C. E.
     Lutz, "Le bon chien Soullart," Gazette 51 (1977) pp. 208-12.

          Paper (watermarks: similar to Briquet Tete de cerf 15548, Tete de
     boeuf 14247, and unidentified unicorn), ff. vi (paper) + 60 + vi
     (paper), 283 x 202 (224 x 156) mm. Written in ca. 34 long lines (2
     columns of verse for ff. 45v-51r); frame-ruled in hard point.
          I-VI^^10.
          Written by a single scribe in a running script, with a more formal
     style of writing for headings.
          Penwork drawing (with red added) of the hound, Soullart, on f.
     59r; drawing of a lion [?] in same style on f. 60r. Simple decorative
     initials and headings in red, blue and/or black; some with calligraphic
     penwork designs and grotesques extending into margins. Paragraph marks,
     underlining, and highlights, in red.
          Binding: s. xix. Half purple leather with textured cloth sides.

          Written in France at the end of the 15th century; the watermarks
     suggest Northern France. Belonged to Laurence Nowell (inscription
     "Laurens Nowell" with the date "1564" on ff. 1r and 59v). The
     manuscript apparently passed to the Anglo-Saxon scholar William Lambarde,
	a friend of Nowell, and remained in the Lambarde family until this
	century when it was sold by William Lambarde (bookplate; London, 18
	June 1924, no. 505). For a discussion of the Nowell-Lambarde collection,
	consult R. Flower, "Laurence Nowell and the Discovery of England in 
	Tudor Times," Proceedings of the British Academy 21 (1935) pp. 47-73;
	however, the antiquary Laurence NOwell is confused with a cousin of the 
	same name, who was Dean of Litchfield. Collection of C. F. G. R.
	Schwerdt (bookplate; see the catalogue Hunting Hawking Shooting
	[London, 1928] v. 2, p. 347; his sale (Sotheby's, 12 March 1946, no.
	2235, pl. 164 of f. 1r). Purchased from Goldschmidt's by David Wagstaff;
	gift of Mrs. David Wagstaff in 1946.

     secundo folio: Laprentis

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 32, no. 121.

     Barbara A. Shailor