| Location: | Cologny |
| Library / Collection: | Fondation Martin Bodmer |
| Shelfmark: | Cod. Bodmer 11 |
| Manuscript title: | Chanson d’Aspremont |
| Caption: | Parchment · 80 ff. · 26.3 x 18.0 cm · 13th century |
| Language: | French, Latin |
| Manuscript summary: | The Estoire de la guerre sainte, attributed to Ambroise d’Evreux, informs us that the Chanson d’Aspremont was read aloud during the winter of 1190 to entertain the soldiers of Richard the Lionhearted and Philip Augustus, who were stationed in Sicily. This heroic epic (chanson de geste) in rhymed decimeter and Alexandrines tells of the campaign of Charlemagne in Italy against the pagan king Agolant and his son Helmont. The Anglo-Norman manuscript held by the Fondation Martin Bodmer was produced in the 13th century and contains interlinear and marginal corrections, added in a second hand at a slightly later date than that in which the text was written. Because the additions were doubtless made with the help of a proofing manuscript, we can thus measure the complex effort that was required for the dissemination of this text. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.5076/e-codices-cb-0011 |
| Permanent link: | http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cb/0011 |
| How to quote: | Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 11: Chanson d’Aspremont (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cb/0011) |
| Online since: | 10/04/2011 |
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