Payne and Foss
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
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Jean, Bodel (Author) | Payne and Foss (Seller) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This Gradual was produced in 1071 by the archpresbyter of the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere; it contains the musical scores for assorted liturgical songs. These melodies set down in written form make CB 74 the oldest record of Roman song.
Online Since: 07/31/2007
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Gentili, Antonio Saverio (Former possessor) | Payne and Foss (Seller) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) | T. & W. Boone (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Gentili, Antonio Saverio (Former possessor) | Payne and Foss (Seller) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) | T. & W. Boone (Seller) Found in: Additional description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Gentili, Antonio Saverio (Former possessor) | Payne and Foss (Seller) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) | T. & W. Boone (Seller) Found in: Additional description
This codex from Italy contains Gregory the Great's Homiliae in Ezechielem. The anathema Quicumque eum vendiderit vel alienaverit vel hanc scripturam raserit anathema sit is on f. 1r, as well as a partially erased ex libris that mentions a Convent of St. Agnes. The codex was purchased by Martin Bodmer in 1962; earlier perhaps it belonged to the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice and then to Abbot Celotti, to the library of Thomas Phillips, and to Sir Sydney Cocherell.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
- Payne and Foss (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Celotti, Luigi (Former possessor) | Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle (Former possessor) | Duschnes, Philip C. (Seller) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Payne and Foss (Seller) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Thorpe, Thomas (Seller) Found in: Standard description
In about 1310 the Bishop of Liège, Thibaut de Bar, commissioned Jacques de Longuyon to write the Vœux du paon, which extends the tradition of the Alexander romance. Thirteen miniatures and a number of filigreed initials adorn the alexandrine monorhyme stanzas of the poem.
Online Since: 03/25/2009
- Payne and Foss (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Jacques, de Longuyon (Author) | Maggs Bros. Ltd. (Seller) | Payne and Foss (Seller) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description