Le manuscrit médiéval ~ The Medieval Manuscript

"The Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible modified and reordered for Christian use) served as one of the richest sources for narrative art in the Middle Ages. It provided familiar stories–such as those of the Creation of the World and Noah's Ark–and held up heroes such as David and Solomon for emulation.
Medieval readers turned to the Old Testament not only for inspiration and moral guidance, but also as a source of entertaining tales and historical information. This exhibition features illustrations of the Old Testament in a wide variety of books, including: Bibles, private devotional manuscripts, books for the mass, and world histories..."

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La Bibliothèque Universitaire de Chicago [Lien] expose deux manuscrits précieux de la littérature médiévale: Le Roman de la Rose (ms 1380) et le Jeu des échecs moralisés (ms 392) ...
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University of Chicago Library reunites 'most popular medieval love poem' with its mate ...
The University of Chicago Library acquired a 14th-century manuscript of “Le Roman de la Rose,” or “The Romance of the Rose”—which scholars have referred to as the most popular medieval love poem — reuniting it after a 100-year separation with a manuscript with which it was previously bound.
In 1907, the manuscript of “Le Roman de la Rose” was separated from that of “Le Jeu des Échecs Moralisé,” or “The Moralized Game of Chess,” which the University of Chicago Library acquired in 1931.

Both manuscripts will be on display in the Library’s Special Collections Research Center at 1100 E. 57th St., beginning Feb. 14 as part of the exhibition: “Romance and Chess: A Tale of Two Manuscripts Reunited.” Opening remarks will be made at 12:30 p.m. at the Valentine’s Day opening by Alice Schreyer, Director of the Special Collections Research Center; Daisy Delogu, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literature; and Aden Kumler, Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture at the University of Chicago. The event is free and open to the public. The exhibit will run through March 14.
“Bringing the two parts of this book back together will enable discoveries that would not be possible if they remained apart,” Schreyer said.
Added Delogu, “This ‘Le Roman de la Rose’ manuscript has extraordinary potential to enrich research and teaching opportunities here at Chicago, and will be of interest to scholars of manuscript culture and literary studies worldwide. ‘Le Roman de la Rose’ is arguably the single-most influential vernacular text of the late French Middle Ages.”
In addition to selected photographs and information already available online, the Library plans to add digital surrogates of the manuscripts to its Web site by Feb. 14 at http://roseandchess.lib.uchicago.edu.
The initial section of “Le Roman de la Rose,” an allegorical poem on the art of love, was written by Guillaume de Lorris beginning in the late 1230s — at the height of the age of courtly love and chivalry. The poem was extended and completed between 1270 and 1280 by Jean de Meun, who presented a more rational and cynical view of love. Numerous copies of the poem were made. The copy acquired by the University of Chicago Library was created in France about 1365 — almost 100 years before the invention of the printing press. The manuscript includes more than 40 miniatures by the Master of Saint Voult, an artist associated with illuminators who worked for King Charles V.
Chicago’s manuscript of “Le Jeu des Échecs Moralisé” was also created in France about 1365, and includes 13 illuminations by the Master of Saint Voult. The recorded provenance, or ownership history, of the two manuscripts bound together in one book dates to the 16th century.
In 1907, the manuscripts were purchased at Sotheby’s by Sir Sydney Cockerell, who had the volume disbound. The University of Chicago acquired “Le Jeu des Échecs Moralisé” in 1931; Cockerell sold “Le Roman de la Rose”to an antiquarian bookseller, Pierre Berès, in 1957, who later sold it to a private individual. The manuscript remained in private hands until it was purchased by the gallery Les Enluminures LTD of Paris and Chicago.
Sandra Hindman, a University of Chicago alumna who represented Les Enluminures, recognized the unusual provenance of the manuscript.
“Very few manuscripts of ‘Le Roman de la Rose’ now exist in private hands, so the opportunities for collectors — individuals or libraries — to acquire a copy remain very limited,” Hindman said. “This one, with its sterling provenance and its rich 14th-century cycle of illumination by an artist of the French court, is unusually fine.”
Members of the Library Visiting Committee, the University of Chicago Library Society, individual donors and the B.H. Breslauer Foundation also recognized the importance of bringing the manuscripts together. Their donations, combined with library endowments, made the purchase of this “Le Roman de la Rose” possible. It is now one of the highlights in the University of Chicago Library’s collection of early manuscripts, which also includes more than 60 Goodspeed New Testament manuscripts.
University faculty members in the departments of art history, music, Romance languages and literatures, English and history are pleased about the impact that the acquisition will have on research and teaching at Chicago.
“The reunion of parts of a medieval manuscript provides a rare and wonderful opportunity,” said Christina von Nolcken, Associate Professor in English Language & Literature and Chair of the Committee on Medieval Studies. “This is especially the case today, when scholars tend to work with manuscripts as a whole rather than with individual texts.”
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Discover Two Reunited Medieval Manuscripts [Link]
Les manuscrits numérisés:
¤ Le Jeu des échecs moralisé (The Moralized Game of Chess) University of Chicago Library MS 392 [Link]
¤ Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) University of Chicago Library MS 1380 [Link]
Illustration: (c) University of Chicago Library MS 1380

Voir sur notre blog [Lien] et la suite [Lien] pour les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose, et ICOROSE, le nouveau site de l'Université de La Laguna (Espagne) [Lien] 
Ici [Lien] pour le Jeu des échecs moralisés.

Du 14 février au 6 avril 2008, La galerie-librairie Les Enluminures (Paris, Louvre des Antiquaires) présentera son exposition de printemps sous le titre : De la chasse aux manuscrits : une douce folie? Cette exposition s’intéressera à la notion de « provenance » des manuscrits, groupés autour de quatre thèmes : des lieux, des hommes (et des femmes), des collectionneurs, des possesseurs.
Des lieux et des hommes : il s’agit ici des abbayes, églises et autres fondations, le plus souvent pieuses, qui ont possédé un ou plusieurs manuscrits sur lesquels on retrouve des marques d’appartenance; des hommes ou des femmes copistes qui ont transcrit et signé leur oeuvre. Comment se sont formées les bibliothèques médiévales ? Quelles traces laissèrent les copistes : signatures, dates, colophons ... ?
La troisième partie de cette exposition sera consacrée aux collectionneurs et à leurs collections, maintenant dispersées, comme celles de Sir Thomas Phillipps, véritable « vello-maniaque », qui rassembla de son vivant une des plus importantes collections de manuscrits, de Sir Moses Montefiore, grand collectionneur de judaïca, de Giannalisa Feltrinelli, du duc d’Aremberg, de Earl of Ashburnham ou de Sir Thomas Brooke, possesseur de nombreux volumes de la bibliothèque Pillone. Seront présentés également les grands collectionneurs américains Coella Lindsay Rickettes, Cornelius Hauck et Charles Roseman.
La dernière partie montrera comment les possesseurs successifs ont personnalisé leurs manuscrits : ex-libris, armoiries et autres marques héraldiques, reliures, signatures, portraits, annotations (comme dans certaines Heures devenues « livre de raison » d’une famille), etc
La galerie-librairie Les Enluminures présentera ainsi 45 manuscrits, décorés ou non, composés dans diverses langues. L’exposition sera inaugurée par une soirée conférence-débat animée par trois types d’acquéreurs de manuscrits : un bibliothécaire responsable d’un fonds ancien, un collectionneur privé et un marchand.


From the 14th February to the 6th April 2008 the bookshop and gallery Les Enluminures (Paris, Louvre des Antiquaires) will host its spring exhibition entitled De la chasse aux manuscrits: une douce folie? ("Hunting manuscripts: a delicate madness?"). The exhibition is centred on the notion of manuscript provenance, and is grouped according to four themes: places, people, collectors, owners. The themes Places and People include abbeys, churches and other institutions, often religious, which had in their possession one of several manuscripts on which can be seen their personal markings, as well as those of the scribes (both male and female) who copied and signed the works. How were medieval libraries made up? What traces were left by the copyists: signatures, dates, colophons...?
The third part of this exhibition will be dedicated to collectors and their collections, now dispersed, such as that of Sir Thomas Philipps, a real vello-maniaque ("vellum-lover"), who in his lifetime amassed one of the largest known manuscript collections. Other examples are Sir Moses Montefiore who collected legal works, as well as Giannalisa Feltrinelli, the duc d’Aremberg, the Earl of Ashburnham and Sir Thomas Brooke who possessed many volumes in the Pillone library. Also represented in the exhibition are important American collectors such as Coella Lindsay Rickettes, Cornelius Hauck and Charles Roseman.
The last part of the exhibition will show how successive owners personalised their manuscripts: ex-libris, coats of arms and other heraldic markings, bindings, signatures, portraits, annotations (such as in certain Books of Hours which became a family's "book of reason"), etc.
The gallery Les Enluminures will thus exhibit 45 manuscripts, some of which are illuminated, in many languages. The exhibition will open with an evening of conference and debate featuring three types of manuscript collectors: a librarian responsible for manuscript collections, a private collector and a seller.
Illustration: Master of Anna Sforza. Prophet with a Scroll [Italy, Lombardy (Milan), c. 1500] (c) Les Enluminures

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Hortus - Paradiesgärten in der mittelalterlichen Buchmalerei
»» 21. Oktober 2007 - 13. Januar 2008 ««
Der biblische Garten Eden fand seit dem frühen Mittelalter in Illustrationen aus klösterlichen Schreibstuben sein farbenfrohes Abbild. Die von großer Frömmigkeit geprägte Beschäftigung der Buchmaler mit der Genesis brachte kunstvolle und aussagekräftige Bilder hervor.
Die Ausstellung führt den Besucher in eine nachempfundene mittelalterliche Schreibstube und bietet anhand ausgewählter Originalhandschriften eine Annäherung an diesen wesentlichen Aspekt klösterlichen Lebens. Mithilfe herausragender Beispiele mittelalterlicher Buchmalerei werden Weltsicht und Naturgefühl in der für den mittelalterlichen Menschen typischen permanenten Gottesschau und Erlösungshoffnung in prachtvoller Form gezeigt. Reale Klostergärten und Abbildungen biblischer Gärten befruchteten sich gegenseitig. Die Vorbilder schon der ersten materiellen "christlichen" Gärten waren jene, die in der Bibel zu finden sind: Das alttestamentarische Paradies - der Garten Eden, als Ideal aller "christlichen" Gärten, der Garten des Hohen Liedes, der Garten Gethsemane. Diese Gärten spielen im Christentum von je her eine Rolle, die weit umfassender ist, als die profane Idee einer von Menschenhand kultivierten Natur.
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An evening with Eberhard König will take place in the Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole on the 19th of September 2007 at 6.30pm, in the Hubert Curien conference room (salle de conférences Hubert Curien). The purchase of the first part of Françoise de Dinan's Book of Hours in 1985 was followed by many other additions to the library's collection, all of which are examples of piety and devotion. Dating from the 15th century, these manuscripts are full of light and artistic creation, and were generally inherited within families. An analysis of their contents and stylistic characteristics sheds light on the relationships of artistic influence as well as on the general commercial exchanges across Brittany during this period. During the evening, Eberhard König, professor of Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin Free University) and world expert in medieval manuscripts, will present the current state of his research with particular relation to the Rennes collection. The event forms part of the jounées du Patrimoine 2007 (cultural heritage days 2007) as well as part of the temporary exhibition Acquisions patrimoniales 1981-2007 (Cultural acquisitions 1981-2007), which runs from the 15th to the 31st October 2007.

Le 19 septembre 2007, à 18h30, Salle de conférences Hubert Curien, la Bibliothèque propose une rencontre avec Eberhard König.
L'achat, en 1985, de la première partie du Livre d'heures de Françoise de Dinan sera suivi de nombreux autres enrichissements, témoins de piété et de dévotion. Datant du XVème siècle, ces manuscrits, éclatants de lumière, riches de création picturale et d'appartenance patrimoniale, apportent par l'examen de leurs possessions et de leurs caractéristiques stylistiques, un éclairage sur les relations d'influences artistiques et les courants d'échanges commerciaux qui ont traversé la Bretagne à cette époque. Eberhard König, professeur d'histoire de l'art à l'Université libre de Berlin, spécialiste mondial des manuscrits médiévaux, présente l'état de ses recherches et met en valeur la collection rennaise. Cette rencontre est proposée à l'occasion des journées du Patrimoine 2007 et de l'exposition temporaire Acquisitions patrimoniales 1981-2007 du 15 au 31 octobre 2007. [Source en ligne]

Illustration: Livre d'heures de Jean de Montauban. Ms 1834, détail du f. 108. Le martyre de sainte Apolline. Maître des Heures de Jean de Montauban. (c) Bibliothèque Rennes métropole.

Etudes d’Eberhard König consacrées à l’enluminure bretonne :
§ Manuscrits à peintures. XIIIe-XVe siècles (Bibliothèque municipale de Rennes), Espace Ouest-France Rennes, Paris (Direction du livre) et Rennes, 1992, 64 p.
§ Le livre et la vie politique, dans: La Bretagne au temps des Ducs. Catalogue exposition Abbaye de Daoulas et Musée Dobrée, Nantes 1991, p. 115-118.
§ Buchmalerei in der Bretagne, dans: Bretagne. Die Kultur des „Landes am Meer“ 1300-1900, catalogue expo. Schallaburg, 1990, p. 72-75 ; p. 113-120.
§ Les manuscrits à peintures en Bretagne, dans: Trésors des Bibliothèques de Bretagne. Catalogue expo. Château des ducs de Rohan, Pontivy 1989, S. 49-63.
§ L’enluminure à Rennes à la fin de la Guerre de Cent Ans, dans: Artistes, artisans et production artistique en Bretagne au Moyen Age, éd. Xavier Barral i Altet, Rennes, 1983, p. 121-126.
§ Un atelier d’enluminure à Nantes et l’art du temps de Fouquet, dans: Revue de l’art, 35, 1977, p. 64-75.

Site de la Bibliothèque Rennes métropole [En ligne]
Collections numérisées de Rennes métropole [En ligne]
Professor Dr. Eberhard König [Vita, Bibliographie en ligne]