Breviari d'Amor (fragment).

Description

Title: Breviari d'Amor (fragment).
Creator: Ermengaud, Matfre, active 1288-1322
Published / Created: [ca. 1320]
Publication Place: Southern France
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Breviari d'Amor by Matfre Ermengaud. This fragment, the sole example of troubadour lyric in North America outside of the Morgan Library, contains sections II.15913-16015 of the poem, which details the ten punishments of hell. Marginal notes in two later hands are present
Description: In Old Occitan (Old Provençal).
Accompanied by: nineteenth-century printed description in French and translation into modern French.
Script: main text in vernacular Gothic bookhand. Marginal notes in a late medieval hand and an early modern hand.
Decoration: nine four-line initials in alternating red and blue with contrasting penwork. Two two-line initials in red. A single red capitulum mark. Rubrics present in red.
Layout: single column of thirty lines; the initial letter of each line is set slightly apart. Light brown ink.
Provenance: Purchased from King Alfred's Notebook in 2017.
Extent: 1 bifolium : 204 mm x 146 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Provencal (to 1500)

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Ermengaud, Matfre, active 1288-1322
Subject (Topic): Hell
Manuscripts, Medieval
Troubadour songs
Subjects: Ermengaud, Matfre, active 1288-1322
Hell
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Troubadour songs
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Matre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor (Fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.