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| Reference Code: | GB 0247 MS Hunter 252 (U.4.10) | ||
| Title: | Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles | ||
| Call Number: | MS Hunter 252 (U.4.10) | ||
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![[ MS Hunter 252 fol. 40 detail ]](/scans/Manuscripts/Hunter/MS Hunter 252/H252_0040rd1t.jpg "[ MS Hunter 252 fol. 40 detail ]")
![[ MS Hunter 252 fol. 101 detail ]](/scans/Manuscripts/Hunter/MS Hunter 252/H252_0101rd1t.jpg "[ MS Hunter 252 fol. 101 detail ]")
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| Content: | Antoine de la Sale [?Pot (Philippe)], Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. Antoine de la Sale's Hundred New Tales: Begins - after a table of contents beginning (1, 2 recto lines 1-5): S [gilt illuminated initial] Ensuyt la table de ce present liure intitule Des Cent | nouuelles. Lequel en soy contient cent chapitres ou hi | stoires ou pour mieulx dire nouuelles. | Compte par monseigneur le duc | L [small gilt illuminated initial] a premiere Nouuelle traicte dung qui trouua facon dauoir la... and ending (1, 10 recto line 21): donna comme cy apres pourrez oyr, and an epistle dedicatory beginning (1, 10 verso lines 1-3): A mon tres chier et tres redoubte seigneur | Monseigneur le duc de burgoigne de brabant etc. | C [gilt illuminated initial] Omme ainsi soit quentre les bons et prouffitables... and ending (same page, lines 25, 26): myne beaucop nouuelle: | De Dijon lan. M. iiijc. xxxij. [the last line rubric] - (2, 1 recto lines 1, 2): E [gilt illuminated initial alongside a miniature illustrating the tale] N la ville de Valenciennes | eut nagueres vng Ends (27, 5 verso lines 23-25): lieux ioyeusement racompterent. | Icy finent les C. nouuelles | nouuelles. = Wright, p. 223. Mr. Wright's edition professes to be a literal reproduction of this MS., merely supplying lacunae from the printed text of Vérard in M. Le Roux de Lincy's edition. He was wrong in assuming that Philip the Good was one of the contributors and not his son Charles - Comte de Charolais, who succeeded his father in 1467. The fact that Charles is addressed in the Epistle Dedicatory as "Monseigneur le Duc" gives us the date of the redaction of these tales, and shows that the date (on 1, 10 verso), "1432," is false, possibly a copyist's error for 1472, with which later date the style of handwriting and illumination would better agree. Le Sale is usually regarded as the "editor" of the Nouvelles, of the 50th of which he appears as l'Acteur, i.e. the narrator. He was born in Burgundy at the close of the XIV. Century, went as a youth to Italy, was secretary to Louis III., Duke of Anjou, and on his death in 1434 entered his son René's service, whose children he tutored. Brought back to Flanders by the Comte de Saint-Pol and presented to Philip the Good, he became one of the ornaments of the latter's Court where he ingratiated himself with the refugee Dauphin (afterwards Louis XI.) by imitating at the Château de Genappe the "Ten Days Entertainment" of Boccaccio, afterwards publishing the "new" Nouvelles and dedicating them to his patron. Fol. 101 (14, 5.) has the top right corner replaced and the text supplied. Fol. 137 (18, 9.) is a much later substitute, the text (with vignette) in a XVII. Cent. hand. Fol. 206 (27, 4.) has a margin cut off and the lacunae supplied with two lines on the recto: La Ce et derniere nouuelle | par phelipe de Loan," and four lines on the verso = Wright, 220, lines 27-33. Fol. 207 (27, 5.) is a similar substitute. The same XVII. Cent. hand appears in all cases. The last two tales are reversed, '99' concluding. This fact is not noticed by Mr. Wright. The first sixteen lines of the 28th Nouvelle are obliterated. On i, 2 verso in a XVII.-XVIII. Cent. hand: No. 751. [Formerly Q.4.7; Q.4.55]. Trésors des bibliothèques d'Ecosse (Brussels, 1963): Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. Glasgow University, Hunterian ms. 252 (U.4.10). Parchemin; 207 f.; 255 x 183 mm.; Flandre (?), fin du XVe siècle; Reliure; fin du XVIIe siècle, maroquin citron sur ais de carton, dos à compartiments avec le monogramme GG entouré de quatre lions rampants, lampassés de gueule. C'est le seul manuscrit qui subsiste des Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, importante collection de récits en prose, pour la plupart licencieux, faits à la cour de Philippe le Bon, duc de Bourgogne. Les contes sont inspirés du Décaméron et certains sont puisés dans les Facéties du Pogge. L'anonymat de la collection n'est pas surprenant dans une oeuvre originairement destinée à une diffusion privée plutot qu'à la publication. La compilation de l'ouvrage a été fréquemment attribuée à Antoine de la Salle, mais le plus récent éditeur du texte, Pierre Champion, l'a attribuée à Philippe Pot, seigneur de la Roche et chambellan du duc. Les récits sont précédés de miniatures qui expliquent le texte et qui sont, d'après Champion, l'oeuvre d'un artiste, probablement du centre de la France (peut-être de Tours), travaillant vers 1480-1490. La collection fut imprimée pour la première fois à Paris, en 1486. Le manuscrit fut acheté par Hunter à la vente Gaignat, en 1769. See presscuttings from unknown publication, titled 'Le Temps. - 18 décembre 1928' and 'Autour des "Cent nouvelles nouvelles"'. Edition of text by Pierre Champion, with reproductions of the illustrations - Paris: Dros, 1928 [Bh19-y.1,2]. Treasures of Scottish libraries (Dublin, 1964): Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. Glasgow University, Hunterian Library, MS. 252 (U.4.10). Parchment, 207 ff., 255 x 183 mm. ?S. Netherlands, s. xv2. The only surviving manuscript of Les cent nouvelles nouvelles, an important collection of prose tales, most of them licentious, told at the court of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. The tales are modelled on the Decameron, and some derive from the Facetiae of Poggio. The anonymity of the collection is not surprising in a work originally intended for private circulation rather than for publication. The compilation of the work has frequently been attributed to Antoine de la Salle, but the most recent editor of the text, Pierre Champion, has pressed the claims of Philippe Pot, Seigneur de la Roche and Chamberlain to the Duke. The text is written in a cursive Gothic script (littera cursiva formata). The tales are preceded by illustrative miniatures; there are gilt illuminated initials but no marginal decoration. The collection was first printed at Paris in 1486. Bought by Hunter at the Gaignat sale in 1769. References. De Bure, no. 2214. T. Wright (ed.), Les cent nouvelles nouvelles, Paris, 1858. Young & Aitken, pp. 202-3. P. Champion (ed.), Les cent nouvelles nouvelles, Paris, 1928. |
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| Place of Creation: | France | ||
| Date of Creation: | 1462 | ||
| Physical Description: | Bound volume. Vellum, 10 x 7¼, ff. 207, originally ff. 208, well written in single cols. of 35 lines, each 8 5/8 x 5½, ruled violet, no signatures, catchwords or foliation visible (probably cropped off), vignettes (at the beginning of each tale, the picture illustrating some incident of it), exquisitely painted in the same style as the illustrations in the VITA CHRISTI, [H.M. Lib. Hunter MS 36, T. 1], possibly by the same (Flemish?) artist, gilt illuminated initials, rubrics, first initials of sentences touched with gamboge, much cropped, no marginalia, badly stained in places, but folios replaced by latter vellum and lacunae supplied in late XVII. Cent. hand, fol. sec. SEnsuit. Cent. XV. (1432?). (probably 1462). Binding: Millboards, covered maroquin citron, gilt-tooled edges, inside margins and (panelled) back, sides plain, gilt edges, on all the panels except the second is a monogram [unkeyable character] surrounded by four lions, dexter, langued, rampant, in the second is the title (gilt) on a crimson morocco shield: LES CENT | NOUVELLES. Late Cent. XVII. [For detailed collation see: John Young and P. Henderson Aitken, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of The Hunterian Museum in The University of Glasgow. (Glasgow, 1908), p. 203.] |
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| Language: | French | ||
| Document Type: | Document | ||
| Bibliography: | Published as: Thomas Wright, Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (2 vols, Paris, 1857-1858); English translations by R.H. Robbins, The Hundred Tales (New York, 1960). See also: 'Am Strassenkreuz Europas', Frankfurter Wessen und Ausstellungen in Vengangenheit und Gegenwart, 1957, p. 19 - reproduction of miniature to Nouvelle no. 30; Jack Baldwin, William Hunter, 1718-1783, book collector: catalogue of an exhibition (Glasgow, 1983), no. 5; Hans Biedert, 'Diplomatischer Dienst und Seelenheil: Reisen und Pilgerfahrten im Mittelalter', Praxis Geschichte, Jahrg. 14, Heft 3 (Mai 2001), pp 13-17, esp. plate 3; G.F. de Bure, Supplément à la Bibliographie instructive, ou catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu M. Louis Jean Gaignat (Paris, 1769), 2214; P. Champion, Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (Paris, 1928); John A. Chartres, 'The English inn and road transport before 1700', Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, Kolloginen 3, Gestfrundschaft, Taverne und Gasthaus im Mittelalter, ed. Hans Conrad Peyer (Oldenbourg, 1983), pp. 153-176, illus. p. 163; W.R. Cunningham, 'Books & Authors', The Glasgow Herald, Thursday March 14, 1929; Julie Gardham, The world of Chaucer: medieval books and manuscripts (Glasgow, 2004), p. 47; National Library of Scotland, Treasures of Scottish libraries: catalogue (Edinburgh, 1961), x, 5; Nigel Thorp, The glory of the page (London, 1987), no. 58; Treasures from Scottish libraries: catalogue of an exhibition held in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (Edinburgh, 1964), no. 48; Trésors des bibliothèques d'Ecosse (Brussels, 1963), no 42; John Young & P.H. Aitken, A catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, 1908), pp 202-203; Edgar de Blieck, The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, Text and Context: Literature and history at the court of Burgundy in the fifteenth century, (PhD Thesis: University of Glasgow, 2004). | ||
| Notes: | Access to original by appointment only; slides or published edition should be used. This manuscript has been exhibited on the following occasions: 'Treasures of Scottish Libraries', National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1961; 'Trésors des Bibliothèques d'Ecosse', Brussels, 1963; 'Treasures from Scottish libraries', Trinity College Library, Dublin, 1964; 'William Hunter, Book Collector', Glasgow University Library, Apr.-Sep. 1983; 'The Glory of the Page', Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Oct. 1987-Jan. 1988, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Feb.-Apr. 1988, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Jun.-Aug. 1988, Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Nov. 1988-Jan. 1989; 'The Magic of the Middle Ages, Part 2: Secular Manuscripts', Glasgow University Library, Sep.-Dec. 1995; 'Manuscripts from Two Millenia', Glasgow University Library, 20 May 1996; 'The World of Chaucer', Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, May-Aug. 2004. |
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| Level of Description: | Item | ||
| Access: | Restricted. See Notes for details | ||
| Accession Number: | 2482 (See collection level record) | ||
| Series: | Part of MS Hunter 1-658 (See series level record) | ||
| Record Number: | 33140 | ||
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