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Subject(s)

• Sin—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Taylor, Robert H., 1908-1985 [Browse]

Contents

• fols. ii verso-iv recto: Prefatory series of moral and theological diagrams, comprised of concentric circles, roundels with Latin inscriptions, and connnecting lines; tinted in red, yellow, and blue.
• fol. v recto: Unidentified verse prayer to the Virgin Mary. fol. v verso is blank.
• fols. 1r-150v: William de Wadington (?), Le manuel des péchés. Anglo-Norman verse text in nine numbered books; composed between 1250 and 1270 by an anonymous English cleric but often attributed to William de Wadington. Taylor MS. 1 is the only illustrated manuscript of the Le manuel des péchés, among 27 extant manuscripts. The manuscript has two historiated initials and 28 pen-and-ink or painted illustrations of exempla in the bas-de-page.
• fols. 151r-164v: Le roman des romans. Anonymous 13th-century Anglo-Norman verse homily on worldly and clerical corruption.
• fols. 165r-170r: Plainte de la Vièrge.
• fols. 170v-171r: Maurice de Sully (ca. 1120-1196), bishop of Paris, Homily iii on the Pater Noster, first petition only.
• fols. 172v-198r: Robert Grosseteste (1175?-1253), bishop of Lincoln, Le chasteau d'amour, in Anglo-Norman verse, with a prose preface in Latin.

References

Don C. Skemer, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, vol. 1, pp. 399-404, plates 81-84.

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