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Harley MS 4388

British Library

London

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United Kingdom

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115v-119v

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Disticha Catonis, translated into Anglo-Norman French

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French (DC)

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Incipit:

an Anglo-Norman translation of the 'Disticha Catonis' (per CIM) | A Fabliau on the subject of Cato (per Harleian Catalogue)

Explicit:

Ki volt saveur la faitement / Ke Katun a sun fiz prent, / Sen latin nel fet entendre / Ci le pot en romanz aprendre. / Cum helis de quincestre / Ki deis mettet a sa destre / La translata si faitement. (per Harleian Catalogue)

History

helis de quincestre (per Harleian Catalogue)

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XIII (1/4)

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1201-1225

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England

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"James Ravenscroft (b. 1595, d. 1680), lawyer and merchant, Jesus College Cambridge, 1613; B. A. 1616; Inner Temple 1616 [...] The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library" (per CIM)

Physical reproductions:

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4567&CollID=8&NStart=4388

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CIM (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4567&CollID=8&NStart=4388) | Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, vol. 3, p. 140, no. 4388

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