Jean, Bodel (1165-1210)
This manuscript is famous primarily for its rich collection of Old French Fabliaux, a considerable number of which survive only in this manuscript; it also is considered among the most important textual witnesses for the fragment of the Sept sages de Rome and for Perceval. Because of its great importance to French poetry, it was lent to Paris at the beginning of the 19th century, was temporarily lost, and had to be re-bought by the municipal library of Bern at great expense in 1836.
Online Since: 10/08/2015
- Adam de Suel (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Chrétien, de Troyes (Author) | Estienne, Henri (Annotator) | Estienne, Henri (Former possessor) | Gautier, le Long (Author) | Goldast, Melchior (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Huon, de Cambrai (Author) | Jean, Bodel (Author) | Manuel, Jacques Antoine (Former possessor) | Païen, de Maisières (Author) | Raoul, de Houdenc (Author) Found in: Standard description
Late 13th century songbook from Lorraine (Metz?); the manuscript has empty staves throughout. It contains 524 trouvère songs by anonymous as well as by named authors and includes various genres, religious texts and many songs that are transmitted only in this source.
Online Since: 12/14/2017
- Adam, de la Halle (Author) | Andreus (Author) | Andrieu, Contredit (Author) | Andrieu, de Paris (Author) | Anonymus (Author) | Aubertin, d'Araines (Author) | Aubin, de Sezanne (Author) | Audefroi, le Bastart (Author) | Badouin, des Auteus (Author) | Baude, de la Quarriere (Author) | Baudouin (Author) | Bestourné (Author) | Blondel, de Nesle (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Chanoine de Saint-Quentin (Author) | Chapelain, de Laon (Author) | Chardon, de Croisilles (Author) | Chrétien, de Troyes (Author) | Colard, le Boutellier (Author) | Colin, de Pansance (Author) | Colin, Muset (Author) | Conon, de Béthune (Author) | Craon, Pierre de (Author) | Cuvelier, Jean (Author) | Duchesse, de Lorraine (Author) | Gace, Brulé (Author) | Gaidifer, d'Avion (Author) | Garnier, d'Arches (Author) | Gautier, d'Epinal (Author) | Gautier, de Bregi (Author) | Gautier, de Dargies (Author) | Gautier, de Navilly (Author) | Gavaron, Grazelle (Author) | Geoffroi, de Chastillon (Author) | Gérard, de Valenciennes (Author) | Gille, de la Croix (Author) | Gille, de Viés Maisons (Author) | Gille, le Vinier (Author) | Gillebert, de Berneville (Author) | Gontier (Author) | Gontier, de Soignies (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guichard, de Beaulieu (Author) | Guillaume, de Corbie (Author) | Guillaume, de Ferrières (Author) | Guillaume, le Vinier (Author) | Guiot, de Brunoi (Author) | Guiot, de Dijon (Author) | Guiot, de Provins (Author) | Guy, de Coucy (Author) | Hendrik III., Brabant, Hertog (Author) | Herbert (Author) | Hugues, de Berzé (Author) | Huon, de Saint-Quentin (Author) | Jacques de Cysoing (Author) | Jacques, Bretel (Author) | Jakemes (Author) | Jaque, d'Amiens (Author) | Jaquemin, de la Vente (Author) | Jaufré, Rudel (Author) | Jean, Bodel (Author) | Jean, de Neuville (Author) | Jean, le Taboureur (Author) | Jean, le Teinturier (Author) | Jehan (Author) | Jehan, d'Archis (Author) | Jehan, d'Auxerre (Author) | Jehan, D'Esquiri (Author) | Jehan, de Brienne (Author) | Jehan, de Roucy (Author) | Jehan, de Trie (Author) | Jocelin, de Bruges (Author) | Jocelin, de Dijon (Author) | Jofroi, Baré (Author) | Lambert, Ferri (Author) | Martin, de Beguin (Author) | Mathieu, le Juif (Author) | Moniot, d'Arras (Author) | Muse, en Bourse (Author) | Oudart, de Laceni (Author) | Perrin, d'Angicourt (Author) | Peter I., Bretagne, Herzog (Author) | Pierre de Beaumarchais (Author) | Pierre, de la Chapele (Author) | Pierre, II de Molins (Author) | Pierre, le Borgne (Author) | Pierrekin, de la Coupele (Author) | Raoul (Author) | Raoul, de Ferrières (Author) | Raoul, de Soissons (Author) | Renas (Author) | Renaut, de Beaujeu (Author) | Renaut, de Sableuil (Author) | René, de Trie (Author) | Richard, de Fournival (Author) | Rigaut, de Barbezieux (Author) | Robert, de Blois (Author) | Robert, de Castel (Author) | Robert, de la Pierre (Author) | Robert, de Memberoles (Author) | Robert, de Reins (Author) | Roger, d'Andeli (Author) | Roi, d'Aragon (Author) | Roi, Richart (Author) | Sauvage, de Betune (Author) | Sauvale, Cosset (Author) | Simart, de Boncourt (Author) | Simon, d'Autie (Author) | Sinner, Jean Rodolphe (Librarian) | Thibaut I., Bar, Comte (Author) | Thibaut I., Navarre, Roi (Author) | Thibaut, De Blason (Author) | Thibaut, de Nangis (Author) | Thomas, Erier (Author) | Vielars, de Corbie (Author) | Vilain, d'Arras (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
Jean Bodel, who was a member of the Brotherhood of Buskers and a bourgeois (middle-class resident) of Arras, wrote his Chanson des Saisnes (Song of the Saxons) during the last third of the 12th century. This epic in Alexandrine verse tells of the war prosecuted by Charlemagne against the Saxon King Guiteclin. The Chanson exists today in three manuscripts (a fourth was completely destroyed in the fire at the library of Turin) which present different versions of the text. The long version held by the Fondation Martin Bodmer is in a small-format manuscrit de jongleur or performer's script. It was probably produced around the end of the 13th century and is a simple piece of work, without miniatures, written on parchment, much of which was poorly cut, and it is roughly sewn together.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Jean, Bodel (Author) | Payne and Foss (Seller) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description