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Paris, Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, MS 791

  • Latin, Middle Breton
  • 1360-c.1362
  • Breton manuscripts, Breton manuscripts
  • vellum
Manuscript (middle of the 14th century) commissioned by Jean Trisse for the Carmelite convent of Nîmes, of which he was a friar, and copied in Paris by Henri Dahelou, a Breton clerk of the diocese of Quimper. It contains a number of works of Carmelite interest, including some composed by Jean Trisse. The first explicit in the manuscript is followed by a Middle Breton proverb.
Identifiers
Location
Shelfmark
791
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin Secondary: Middle Breton
Date
1360-c.1362
1360-c.1362
Origin, provenance
Origin: ParisParis
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Dahelou (Henri)
(s. xiv)
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Provenance: Nîmes, Carmelite conventNîmes, Carmelite convent
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Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Scribe The first text, a Rule of the Order of Carmelites, is followed by a colophon of 5 lines, which reads Explicit regula fratrum Beate Marie de Carmelo / pro conventu Nemansi, quam fecit scribi frater / Iohannes Trisse, filius predicti conventus, per Henri- / cum Dahelou, clericum Corisopitensis dyoc[esis], anno .LXº. / Anima scriptor[is] requiescat. Amen. (Henrich Denifle asserts that the fifth line is in later hand). The Breton proverb which follows reads Nep na ra mat her dra guieli dezo. Henri DahelouDahelou (Henri)
(s. xiv)
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Patron
Trisse (Jean)Trisse (Jean)
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Codicological information
Material
vellum
Dimensions
26.2 cm × 19.3 cm
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.
Breton manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux (BVMM), Online: IRHT-CNRS. URL: <http://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/>.
A selection of images. direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Vendryes, Joseph, “Chronique [nos 1-17]”, Revue Celtique 37 (1917–1919): 393–410.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link>
408–409 (no. 16)
Thomas, Antoine, and Joseph Loth [ass.], “Séance du 8 novembre 1918: texte en moyen-breton dans le manuscrit 791 de la Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne”, Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 62:5 (1918): 379–382.
Persée: <link>
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
April 2020, last updated: June 2021
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