Chartres Bibliothèque municipale 620
Manuscript Identification
Textual Content & Tradition
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Digitisation & Editions
Note
The Chartres 620 MS was unfortunately lost in WWII. It was partially photographed prior to this distruction, but primarily the second half. This is noteworthy, because the text existed in two parts: folios 19-26 in prose, through to the opening of ''Tentamina'', and then folios 27-44 in rhymed verse. Only one image of the first (prose) half of the text (folio 26) survives. Some of the above details rely on descriptions from Smith (1912).
According to Speer (1981) and Speer and Foehr-Janssens (2017), despite the fact that the two halves of the text are copied in different hands and styles, there is sufficient fluidity between them to consider them an intentional continuation and whole, rather than discrete fragments.Authorship & Production
Physical Description
Contents & Additional Texts
19 - 43: Sept sages de Rome
47 - 54: Anonyme, Vie de sainte Marguerite
55 - 120: Herman de Valenciennes, Roman de Dieu et de sa mere
120r - 121rb: Gautier de Coinci, Prière de Théophile
121 - 124: Prière à Notre Dame
124v - 125: Prière à Notre Dame
124 - 127: Clerc de Vaudois, Dit du droit
128v - 128v: Pater noster
136r - 136v: Auberee
136v-149r: Isopet de ChartresCatalogues & Research Literature
Embedded Stories in This Manuscript
| Has Short Title | Has Sequence Number | Has Narrator | Has Name Variation |
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| Tentamina – The Test | 8 | ||
| Roma – Rome Besieged | 9 | Empress | |
| Avis – The Bird | 10 | Cato | |
| Sapientes – The Wise Men | 11 | Empress | |
| Vidua – The Widow | 12 | Jesse | |
| Virgilius – Virgil's Marvels | 13 | Empress | |
| Inclusa – The Imprisoned Wife | 14 | Meron | Merol |
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