• [Old French romances].

Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Supplied title.
  • This manuscript was incorrectly identified by De Ricci and others as containing only "La chevalier de Judas Macchabée." Cf. McGrath.
  • Collation: Parchment; ff. ii (paper) + 71 (the last folio is blank) + ii (paper). The folios are singletons and generally bound out of order. Missing leaves are always cognate.
  • Layout: 2 columns of 42-43 lines each; frame-ruled in lead point; written below the top line.
  • Decoration: Two 2-line penwork initials in alternately blue and red with penwork of the opposite color and 7- to 8-line initials in champide decoration.
  • Miniatures: Like the text, the miniatures are out of order. There are fifteen miniatures in Garrett MS. 125, illustrating three of the four texts; Garin de Montglane, which was probably not part of the manuscript originally, is not illustrated. Illustrations include thirteen square to rectangular miniatures of approximately columnar width within frames (fols. 1r, 22r, 26v, 31v, 32r, 34r, 37r, 38r, 52r, 56v, 58v, 67r, 70v) and two historiated initials (fols. 14r, 40r).
  • Origin: Copied and illuminated in northwest France for a lay patron in the last quarter of the 13th century (probably the 1290s).
Date:
  • 1275-1299
Range label:
  • Visual Materials
  • Front cover
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 5]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 9]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot) [segment 2]
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 1]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 3]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 5]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 8]
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 4]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot) [segment 3]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 12]
  • Garin de Monglane [segment 4]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot) [segment 6]
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 6]
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 9]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot) [segment 7]
  • Garin de Monglane [segment 5]
  • Garin de Monglane [segment 3]
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 7]
  • Garin de Monglane [segment 1]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot) [segment 5]
  • Garin de Monglane [segment 2]
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 8]
  • Garin de Monglane [segment 6]
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 10]
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 2]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 2]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 6]
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 3]
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 11]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 13]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot) [segment 1]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 10]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 11]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 4]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot) [segment 4]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 1]
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [segment 7]
  • Gautier de Belleperche, La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [segment 12]
Type:
  • Romances
  • Manuscripts
  • Historiated initials
  • Parchment
  • Paper
  • Textura
  • Calf bindings (Binding)
  • Poetry
Former owner:
  • Brölemann, Henri-Auguste, 1775-1854
  • Mallet, Étienne, Madame, b. 1859
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Abstract:
  • Ms. miscellany of French romances in verse. Texts are all incomplete and bound out of order. Probably the original sequence of texts was "Le chevalier au lion" (Yvain), "Le chevalier de la charrette" (Lancelot), and "La chevalier de Judas Macchabée." Cf. Rushing.
Title sort:
  • [Old French romances].
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett 125
  • Sotheby's (Firm)
  • Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
  • [between 1275 and 1299]
Subject:
  • Judas, Maccabeus, -161 B.C.—Poetry
  • Manuscripts, French—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Romances
  • Manuscripts—France—15th century
  • Historiated initials—France—13th century
  • Parchment
  • Paper
  • Textura
  • Calf bindings (Binding)—19th century
Language:
  • French, Old (842-ca.1400)
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/pz50gx50b
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Extent:
  • 75 leaves : parchment ; 295 x 225 (235 x 164) mm.
Call number:
  • Garrett MS. 125
  • Oversize PQ1313 .O5a
  • Electronic Resource
Spatial:
  • France
  • New Jersey
Contents:
  • 1. fols. 4r-v, 28r-v, 31r-v, 7r-v, 1r-v, 13r-v, 19r-v, 24r-v, 14r-v, 27r-v, 32r-v, 64r-70v: La chevalier de Judas Macchabée [non-continuous fragments, total 2923 lines].
  • 2. fols. 40r-55r, 29r-v, 5r-v, 36r-37v, 6r-v, 30r-v, 56r-63v, 26r-v, 2r-v, 35r-v, 38r-v, 9r-v, 33r-34r: Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) [non-continuous fragments, total 6200 lines].
  • 3. fols. 34r-v, 3r-v, 8r-v, 39r-v, 21r-22v, 11r-12v, 15r-16v: Le chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot) [non-continuous fragments, total about 1638 lines].
  • 4. fols. 20r-v, 23r-v, 18r-v, 10r-v, 17r-v, 25r-v: Garin de Monglane [non-continuous fragments, written in Alexandrine verse, total 1032 lines].
  • 5. fol. 71r-v: [blank].
References:
  • De Ricci, v. 1, p. 890
Text language:
  • Old French.
Binding note:
  • Gold-tooled blue calf with marbled end papers and five raised bands. The binding is probably French, dating from the second quarter of the 19th century. De Ricci suggested that the binding was ca. 1840.
Provenance:
  • The earliest known owner of the manuscript is Henri-Auguste Brölemann (1775-1854) of Lyon, a French commercial broker and manuscript collector. Affixed to the front pastedown is Brölemann's bookplate (Ex Libris A. Brölemann), on which there are handwritten shelfmarks ("B61" in ink and "C3" in pencil). There is also a handwritten description of the manuscript titled "Poème des Machabées." The Brölemann collection was sold at Sotheby's (London) by his great-grand-daughter Madame Étienne Mallet (b. 1859) on May 5, 1926, lot no. 152. Bernard Quaritch (London) purchased the manuscript and sold it to Robert Garrett in 1928.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
Location:
  • HSVM Garrett MS. 125
  • HSVM Oversize PQ1313 .O5a
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • EXB Garrett MS. 125
  • EXB Oversize PQ1313 .O5a
  • EXB Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Garrett MS. 125
  • ELF1 Oversize PQ1313 .O5a
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
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