ID 869503
Lot 96 | Historical manuscript in Picard French
Valeur estimée
£ 3 000 – 5 000
Leaf from the principal manuscript of the Chronique dites de Baudouin d’Avesnes, in Picard French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [France, late 13th century (or c.1300)].
A long-lost leaf from an important, deluxe, example of French vernacular historical writing.
c.265 × 175mm. Two columns of 35 lines, medieval foliation in the upper margin, ‘cxxvii’, the text from ‘che ki maine vie des honeste. […]’ to ‘[...] En autre lui dist il. Verites ki’, with three inhabited illuminated initials on the recto, introducing sections beginning ‘Nous vous avons dit comment biautes et noblece […]’, ‘Rikeche ki est vus des dons de fortune est en avoir yretages […]’, and ‘Des siers ke nous apielons siergans dist Senekes […]’ (overall somewhat darkened, loss of pigment in the initials revealing the underdrawings, minor cockling and creases in two margins).
Provenance:
(1) The parent manuscript is Arras, Médiathèque, ms 1043 (olim 863), illuminated c. 1300 (or in the late 13th century according to both the JONAS and Initiale websites) at Cambrai or Thérouanne (for a detailed description see Alison Stones, Gothic Manuscripts, 1260–1320, part 1 vol. ii (London and Turnhout, 2013), pp. 397–98, no. III-82).
(2) It was perhaps owned by the Benedictine abbey of St-Vaast, Arras, which was suppressed in 1798, and many of its manuscripts were mutilated probably in 1810 by M. Caron, the municipal librarian of Arras, and afterwards bought as a group of fragments from an Amiens binder c.1830, by:
(3) Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), who offered them back to the mayor of Arras, M. Hauteclocque, who refused to buy them (see A.N.L. Munby, Phillipps Studies, III (Cambridge, 1954), pp. 38–40). Four leaves became Phillipps MS 21625, and were in the Phillipps sale at Sotheby’s, 1 December 1947, lot 15; three of these (with old foliation ‘xviii’, ‘lviii’, and ‘cxxxiii’) re-emerged in the collection of Esther Rosenbaum (d. 1980), of Chicago, and were in her sale, Sotheby’s, 25 April 1983, lot 78. This is the fourth, long-missing, leaf.
(4) Colker MS O30; acquired in 1986 from Maggs.
The text is a discursive universal history from the Creation to the late 13th century, dedicated to (but not written by) Baudouin (1213–1289), son of Margaret, countess of Flanders. It is the second earliest universal chronicle in the French vernacular, preceded only by the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César. Unlike the latter, which it draws upon, it was a true universal history, and in its fullest form it covered everything from the Creation to the date of writing; in the early section the Old Testament narrative is constantly interrupted by accounts of contemporary events from other cultures, and even Christian history is accompanied by accounts of the Goths, Huns, Vandals and Tartars. The text of the present leaf cites Seneca (‘Senekes’/’Seneques’) repeatedly, and Ovid at least once.
The text was very popular and survives in a large number of copies written as late as the 15th century, but only a handful are as early as the present copy. For a recent study of the manuscript tradition, see Laura Endress, ‘Trésor de sapience, Trésor des histoires? Quelques observations sur la tradition manuscrite de la Chronique dite de Baudouin d’Avesnes’, in Les Chroniques et l’histoire universelle: France et Italie (XIIIe–XIVe siècles) (Paris, 2021), pp. 85–110. For a list of manuscripts, editions, and further bibliography, see the Arlima website.
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