Le manuel des pecchez
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Le manuel des pecchez
Other titles: Le manuel des péchés (Leeds University Library. MS 1); Manuel des péchés
Classmark: MS 1
Creator(s): William of Waddington(Other)
Related people: William
Publication city: [France]
Date(s): [ca. 1300-1350]
Language: French
Size and medium: 1 v. (ii, 101, ii leaves) (2 columns, 24 lines)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/396903
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
Includes catchwords at the end of quires.
Decoration: 8-line incipit initial 'L' in blue and red, infilled with a leaf decoration in red; 2-line initials in blue, with red ornament, throughout; 1-line capital beginning each line of verse, filled with yellow or red alternately.
Formerly attributed to William of Waddington.
Written in textualis rotunda.
Principal contents: ff. 1r-200v Le Manuel des Pecches ('Manual of Sins'), an Anglo-Norman poem written in England in the late 13th century and usually attributed to William of Waddington; f. 201r a recipe in 3 lines, "Pernetz gromoyl saxifrage..."
Gift of Colonel Sir E. A. Brotherton in 1925.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) p. 18. See also: E. J. Arnould, Le Manuel de Pèchès (Paris: E. Droz, 1940), p. 384.
Features
Bindings
19th-century binding of red velvet over wooden boards.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of William Constable-Maxwell (1804-76) of Everingham Park, Yorkshire, and his (?) shelfmark (A 2 Sh/4 Place), are inside the front cover.
Access and usage
Access
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