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1. Breviari d'Amor (fragment).
- Creator:
- Ermengaud, Matfre, active 1288-1322
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1320]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.161
- Container / Volume:
- file
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- text
- 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., and Layout: single column of thirty lines; the initial letter of each line is set slightly apart. Light brown ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ermengaud, Matfre, active 1288-1322
- Subject (Topic):
- Hell, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Troubadour songs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviari d'Amor (fragment).
