L'arbre des batailles / composé par Honoré Bonet prieur de Salon.
Robbins MS 91
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Title
L'arbre des batailles / composé par Honoré Bonet prieur de Salon.
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Variant Title
Secundo folio: Fortes sont
Produced
Limoges, 1425.
Description
130 leaves : paper ; 270 x 210 (165 x 125) mm bound to 280 x 215 mm
1 microfilm reel : negative (MN 02-74) and positive (Robbins MS 91)
1 microfilm reel : negative (MN 02-74) and positive (Robbins MS 91)
Formatted Contents Note
1. fol. 1r: blank.
2. fol. 1v: "[text] Ce manuscrit previent de la biblio. de l'abbé de [T]ersan ... on voit à la fin de celui qu'il a ecrit en 1425."
3. fol. 2r-cxxvii [126]r: "[text] L'arbre des batailles composé par Honoré Bonet prieur de Salon, dedié au Roy Charles VI. La sainte couronne de France en laquelle auiourdhuy per l'ordonnance de Dieu regne Charles le sixieme, en reluy nom tres bien aimé et par tout le monde redouté ... et produise a la sienne sancte glorie de paradis. Amen. Anno Domini millesimo quadrincentesimo vicesimo quinto presens liber fuit scriptus per Iohannes de Quadrinno clericum diocesis Lemovicensis quem Dominus in eternum benedicat. Amen. Finito libro sit laus Domino Ihesu Christo Amen. [rubr.] Benedicamus Domino Deo gratias."
4. fol. 126v-129v: "[rubr.] Presens tabula debet poni in principio huius libri secundum [n]otacionem eiusdem. Incipiunt rubrice presentis libri. En cestui liure au[-]a quatre partes. [text] L a premiere sera des tribulations de lesglise [sic] ... a tout bon Roy et tout bon ponice. [rubr.] Deo gratias."
2. fol. 1v: "[text] Ce manuscrit previent de la biblio. de l'abbé de [T]ersan ... on voit à la fin de celui qu'il a ecrit en 1425."
3. fol. 2r-cxxvii [126]r: "[text] L'arbre des batailles composé par Honoré Bonet prieur de Salon, dedié au Roy Charles VI. La sainte couronne de France en laquelle auiourdhuy per l'ordonnance de Dieu regne Charles le sixieme, en reluy nom tres bien aimé et par tout le monde redouté ... et produise a la sienne sancte glorie de paradis. Amen. Anno Domini millesimo quadrincentesimo vicesimo quinto presens liber fuit scriptus per Iohannes de Quadrinno clericum diocesis Lemovicensis quem Dominus in eternum benedicat. Amen. Finito libro sit laus Domino Ihesu Christo Amen. [rubr.] Benedicamus Domino Deo gratias."
4. fol. 126v-129v: "[rubr.] Presens tabula debet poni in principio huius libri secundum [n]otacionem eiusdem. Incipiunt rubrice presentis libri. En cestui liure au[-]a quatre partes. [text] L a premiere sera des tribulations de lesglise [sic] ... a tout bon Roy et tout bon ponice. [rubr.] Deo gratias."
Summary
This work by Honoré Bonet is an important discussion of the right to arms, and was composed at the end of the 14th century, and possibly between 1386 and 1389. The first folio of this manuscript is missing, and was therefore replaced in the 18th century. The text is sometimes attributed to Christine de Pisan (ca. 1364-ca. 1431; see fol. iv, viv for seller's manuscript description); in fact, only books III and IV of Christine's "The book of fayttes of armes and of Chyualrye" are based on "L'Arbre de bataille". A contemporary hand underlined many passages in the text and made some marginal notes and additions in a cursiva currens hand.
Note
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1r.
Collation: Paper (watermarks: Arc, similar but not identical to Briquet 786 and 808; Raisin, similar but not identical to Briquet 12995; Tete de bœuf, similar but not identical to Briquet 14328), fol. ii + 130 + ii; 1¹² (±1) 2-5¹² 6¹⁶ 7-9¹⁴ 10¹⁰ (+11, fol. 130); catchwords at the verso of each quire . Leaves 3-126 foliated ii-lxxvi, lxxviii-cxxv, cxxvii in red ink by a contemporary hand.
Layout: Written in long lines of 30. Outer margins ruled in plummet.
Script: Written in a cursiva libraria script with features of "littera bastarda", apparently by one scribe.
Decoration: Red initials, sometimes penworked, throughout the text, mostly on 2 lines. Red rubrics and red paragraph marks. Many "grotesques" showing animals, human heads and "droleries."
Origin: Written in Limoges, France, in 1425. The colophon appearing on fol. 126r states that the manuscript was copied by Johannes de Quadrinno, diocesan clerk in Limoges in 1425.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law, Robbins MS 91.
Title from fol. 1r.
Collation: Paper (watermarks: Arc, similar but not identical to Briquet 786 and 808; Raisin, similar but not identical to Briquet 12995; Tete de bœuf, similar but not identical to Briquet 14328), fol. ii + 130 + ii; 1¹² (±1) 2-5¹² 6¹⁶ 7-9¹⁴ 10¹⁰ (+11, fol. 130); catchwords at the verso of each quire . Leaves 3-126 foliated ii-lxxvi, lxxviii-cxxv, cxxvii in red ink by a contemporary hand.
Layout: Written in long lines of 30. Outer margins ruled in plummet.
Script: Written in a cursiva libraria script with features of "littera bastarda", apparently by one scribe.
Decoration: Red initials, sometimes penworked, throughout the text, mostly on 2 lines. Red rubrics and red paragraph marks. Many "grotesques" showing animals, human heads and "droleries."
Origin: Written in Limoges, France, in 1425. The colophon appearing on fol. 126r states that the manuscript was copied by Johannes de Quadrinno, diocesan clerk in Limoges in 1425.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law, Robbins MS 91.
Language Note
In Middle French with some passages in Latin.
Ownership
At one time, the manuscript was part of the library of the l'abbé de Tersan, his, no. 1150 in his catalogue (note on flyleaf iii v, in the hand of one of the later owners (late 18th century?): "Ce manuscrit provient de la biblioth[èque] de l'abbé de [T]ersan, no. 1150 de son catalogue. Il a été fait pour Charles VI, excepté la pr[emiè]re page qui a été recopiée"). Further down the page, a note, in all probability in the same hand, with a reference to a text published in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions establishing the name Bonnet for the author of the work, as opposed to the (erroneously) corrected "Bonnor" appearing on fol. 1r. Another note, in the same hand, refers to Monseigneur de Roquefort's "Glossaire de la langue romaine"; according to this work, there were 18 known manuscripts of the "L'arbre des batalles" in the Royal Library at the time. This manuscript used to belong to Henry J.B. Clements: on the inside front cover there is his bookplate showing an eagle, the motto "Patris virtutibus" and the name "Henry J.B. Clements."
Binding Information
Bound in red morocco over pasteboards; gilt spine; gilt edges; marbled paper (red, yellow, blue and green) used for pasteowns and affixed to flyleaves. Title on spine: "Bonor Arbre des Bataille Manuscr. 1425."
Access Note
RESTRICTED ORIGINAL. USE POSITIVE MICROFILM COPY ONLY: Use of original only by permission. Inquiries concerning this item should be directed, in writing, to the reference librarian for The Robbins Collection.
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Call Number
Robbins MS 91
Language
French, middle (ca. 1300-1600)
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