Chartres Bibliothèque municipale 620

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

Date of Production

1275 - 1325

Source of Date of Production

Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/3626

Physical Description

Material

Parchment

Total pages / folios

149

Height

167

Width

120

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

2r - 17v: Livre de moralités
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 Chartres

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Modern Research Literature

Paris (1876), Misrahi (1933), Speer & Foehr-Janssens (2017), Speer (1981), Speer (1987), Speer (1989), Speer (1994), Foehr-Janssens (1994), Foehr-Janssens (1997), Uhlig and Foehr-Janssens (2014), Smith (1912)

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
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

Research Material

Has Research Material Title	Has Research Material Link	Has Research Material Description