[Chansonnier].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Brisebare, -approximately 1340.

Deschamps, Eustache, 1346?-1406

Granson, Oton de, -1397

Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377

Vitry, Philippe de, 1291-1361

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Italian

Subjects (All):

French poetry--To 1500.

French poetry.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

anthologies

Poetry

Manuscripts, French, -- 14th century.

Manuscripts, French, -- 15th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Held by the firm of Leo S. Olschki (Florence, Italy), 1932.

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1954.

Physical Description:

101 leaves : parchment ; 300 x 240 (195 x 160) mm bound to 306 x 250 mm

Production:

[France], [1400?]

Language Note:

Middle French.

Summary:

Collection of 310 poems by Guillaume de Machaut, Oton de Grandson, Brisebare de Douai, Eustache Deschamps, Philippe de Vitry, and others.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.

Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 101 + i (modern paper); 1-13⁸ 14⁶(-1 in position 1);signed a-i, k-n, with possible contemporary signatures visible for b, e, f, and h (f. 9r, 33r, 41r, 57r) and others supplied in pencil, lower right first recto; 1-68, 68-98 [99-100], foliation in black ink, upper right recto, in the later hand of the compiler of the incomplete index (f. 97r). Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in two columns of 36-38 lines in brown ink with red used for headings and capital strokes.

Script: Written by several similar cursive hands.

Decoration: Several decorated (penwork) initials and one inhabited initial with a face (f. 1r).

Binding: Modern leather, "French lyric poetry Machaut Grandson" on spine.

Origin: Written in France, ca. 1400 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Five lines from sonnet CXLVI of Petrarch's Rime (f. 94r).

Incomplete index (f. 96r).

Inscription on f. 1r: "Droit est ferme," (Isabella of Bavaria?).

Description of manuscript by bookseller Laurence Witten on file in Library.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 57 (Ms. French 15).

Publications about:

Bertoni, Giulio, "Liriche di Oton de Grandson, Guillaume de Machaut e di altri poeti in un nuovo canzoniere," Archivum Romanicum 16, no. 1 (1932), pp. 1-20, reproduces 304 incipits, and reprints 7 poems. A copy is in the library's files.

Partial edition in the dissertation of Mudge, Charles R. The Pennsylvania chansonnier, a critical edition of ninety-five anonymous ballades from the fourteenth century with introduction, notes, and glossary. Indiana University, 1972. A copy is in the library's files.

Diekstra, F. N. M., "The poetic exchange between Philippe de Vitry and Jean de le Mote: a new edition," Neophilologus 70 (1986), pp. 504-519. A copy is shelved with the manuscript. A copy is in the library's files.

Wimsatt, James I., "Chaucer and the poems of 'Ch' in University of Pennsylvania MS French 15," Chaucer Studies 9 (1982), p. 51ff.; Wimsatt, James I., Chaucer and the poems of 'Ch' in University of Pennsylvania MS French 15 (Cambridge: Brewer, 1982; rev. ed., Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009).

Flynn, Caitlin. "Courting love: comedy and genre in Robene and Makyne." Studies in Scottish Literature 45.2 (2019), pp. 83–97, at 84–85.

Cited as:

Chansonnier (Oversize Ms. Codex 902). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

OCLC:

155925273

Online:

Collation model