Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 4126 Poppleton manuscript
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- s. xiiiex + s. xiv3/4 composite manuscript
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See more Hulne, Carmelite priory
Carmelite priory in Denwick, near Alnwick, Northumberland), founded c.1242 by William II de Vescy.
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Augustinian priory in York.
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See more Robert of Poppleton, Carmelite friar and previously a priest at York, seems to have been attached to the Carmelite friary at Hulne when the manuscript was being compiled, and also to have intended its production for that house. However, it is thought that much of the work was done in York using the library resources at the Augustinian priory and that compilation took place there (Hudson) or at the Carmelite house in York (Friedman). F. 211v makes an explicit reference to the work’s compilation at York and Friedman notes that twelve texts in the manuscript can be identified with items listed in the library catalogue of the Augustinian convent. An alternative, not necessarily mutually exclusive possibility that has been suggested is that Poppleton visited the Abbey of St Mary’s in York, since it was there in the 16th century that John Leland found a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae.
The “compiler, overseer, partly the scribe, and possibly the decorator” (Friedman) of the compilation, whose name is frequently invoked in prayers/colophon in the MS. It is not clear if Poppleton lived to see the completion of his manuscript. A note written in his memory appears on f. 155v.
(fl. 14th century)
Carmelite friar, who had been a brother of the priory at York and later became prior of the Carmelite friary at Hulne, near Alnwick (Northumberland). He oversaw and probably contributed to the compilation of BNF lat. 4126, the so-called Poppleton manuscript.
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“secretary hand” (Friedman).
Described by Friedman as Poppleton’s “secretary, rubricator and amuensis”, who added the prayer on f. 11 and the longer explicit/prayer on f. 252r, and who also wrote Poppleton’s name in Cambridge, Trin. Coll., MS R 5.42. He is noted for his distinctive p (“with a very spiky Insular style of descender that curves forward at the tip”) and d (“whose stem ... goes leftward slightly and then sharply curves back on itself to the right”).
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