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Gui de Warewic

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Leeds, University of Leeds Libraries, Special Collections, MS Ripon Cathedral Fragments/61

William Duba, Fragmentarium, 2023 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

This description is prepared as part of the Digital Explorations: Opening the Medieval Manuscript Fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library project supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Research England under the Enhancing Research Culture funding stream. 

General Information

Title Gui de Warewic
Shelfmarks MS Ripon Cathedral Fragments/61
Material Parchment
Place of Origin England (?)
Date of Origin early fourteenth century
Script, Hands

A simple gothic bookhand with closed two-lobed As, crossed tironian ets, the limb of the h descends below the line.

Original Condition

Page Height 250 – 300 mm
Page Width 182 mm
Height of Written Area 210 – 220 mm
Width of Written Area 134 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 62 mm
Number of Lines 35
Line Height 6 mm
Ruling Ruled in drypoint. Written below top line.
Collation

With 35 lines per column, each page holds about 70 lines of the Ewert edition. On the inner bifolium, the verso begins (column A) with line Ewert line 3461, and the recto with line 4404. Thus the missing section contains what should correspond to ll. 3531-4404, or 873 lines, which corresponds to 12.4 pages, or three bifolia and a column. Therefore, assuming a significant variant or a modes change in lines per page, this bifolium was the fourth-innermost of the quire. 
More about the Condition

measured ten lines on part 2, outside recto, column A: 60 mm.

Current Condition

Extent 2 horizontal pieces of the same bifolium.
Dimensions 53 x 303 mm
More about the Current Condition

Two pieces of a bifolium; Part 1 is the top of the bifolium containing approximately five lines of verse; Part 2 is contiguous with part 1 and contains between twelve and fifteen lines.

Part 2 is folded along the bifolium crease.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Alternating red and blue initials. On part 1, pen-filigreed initials

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Norman French
    • Title Gui de Warewic
    • Content Description

      The text has major variations when compared to the Ewert edition, whose corresponding lines are indicated in [square brackets]. 

      Outer recto A: A vous me volrai acorder [ 3391] - Ams men voloie aler servir [3409]

      Outer recto B: Ne acele fois neli dist [Ewert, l. 3426] - en vous ai mis toute ma cure [l. 3443]

      Inner verso A: Faites crier p(er) la chite [3461] - Ore nous penes tout debien faire [3475]

      Inner verso B: et de combatre bien aprestre [3496]-  or cest penses de vos deffendre [3513]

      Inner recto A: dites lemoi nel celes mie [4404] - almanis le chief en perderes [4422]

      Inner recto B: En... [4441] - vous me

      Outer verso A: (line 2 - nior..., line 5 -ere, line 6 -aut ... line 20 ...ndre en voloit)

      Outer verso B: Lemp(er)ere a h(er)aut apele [4511] - tant ont p(er)mi lam(en?) ale [4529]
    • Edition Gui de Warewic, Roman du XIIIe siècle, ed. A. Ewert, (Les Classiques Français du Moyen Age) Paris 1932.

History

Remarks

Removed from University of Leeds Libraries, Special Collections, Ripon Cathedral Library XVIII.J.10/Q. 

Host Volume

Title In Lucanum commentum
Date of Origin/Publication 1475
Place of Origin/Publication Venice
Shelfmark Ripon Cathedral Library XVIII.J.10/Q 
Persons Omnibonus Leonicenus (author)
Remarks

Host volume information from Rothwell (below).

ISTC il00172000

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