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Osborn a56
[circa 1300-1349] ; England.
[Treatises in Anglo-Norman verse].
In Anglo-Norman French with Middle English glosses and annotations.
iv l. + 67 l. + ii l. : parchment ; 208 x 135 mm.
- This material is open for research.
- Manuscript, on parchment, in two Gothic bookhands, containig copies of Walter of Biblesworth
(Bibbesworth), Le tretiz ff.1-27v; Nicholas Bozon (c.1280-1320), Les proverbes de
bons enseignements, here called Liber de proverbiis sapientie, ff.28-40v; Hue de Tabarie,
Ordre de la chevalerie ff.42-53v; Le mariage des ix filles du diable, often attributed
to Robert Grosseteste (1170-1253), bishop of Lincoln but here described as St Maurice,
bishop of Paris's translation from the Latin, ff.54-67. The text of Le tretiz contains
numerous interlineations and side notes in Middle English.
- From the library of Lacock Abbey. From the library of Sir Henry Sharington. Purchased
from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christies sale 8002, lot 12) on the James Marshall and
Marie-Louise Osborn Fund and the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
- Ownership inscriptions of Sir Henry Sharington (d. 1581).
- Script: Gothic bookhand.
- Decoration: some rubrication of initials.
- Binding: contemporary chemise binding of white leather over corded boards.
- Walter de Biblesworth, Treatiz de Gualter de Biblesworth. James Marshall and Marie-Louise
Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects:
- Biblesworth, Walter de.
- Administration of estates -- Early works to 1800.
- Anglo-Norman dialect.
- Chivalry -- Early works to 1800.
- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
- French language -- Early works to 1800.
- French language -- To 1500.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- 13th century.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- 14th century.
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Sharington, Henry, Sir, d. 1581
- Lacock Abbey (England)
Added entries:
- Biblesworth, Walter de.
- Bozon, Nicole, fl. 1300-1320.
- Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.
- Hues, de Tabarie.