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Country of Location:
Country of Location
Switzerland
Location:
Location
Cologny
Library / Collection:
Library / Collection
Fondation Martin Bodmer
Shelfmark:
Shelfmark
Cod. Bodmer 40
Manuscript Title:
Manuscript Title
Jean Bodel, Chanson de Saisnes
Caption:
Caption
Parchment · II + 122 + II ff. · 17.6 x 12.4 cm · France · end of the 13th century
Language:
Language
French
Manuscript Summary:
Manuscript Summary
Jean Bodel, who was a member of the Brotherhood of Buskers and a bourgeois (middle-class resident) of Arras, wrote his Chanson des Saisnes (Song of the Saxons) during the last third of the 12th century. This epic in Alexandrine verse tells of the war prosecuted by Charlemagne against the Saxon King Guiteclin. The Chanson exists today in three manuscripts (a fourth was completely destroyed in the fire at the library of Turin) which present different versions of the text. The long version held by the Fondation Martin Bodmer is in a small-format manuscrit de jongleur or performer's script. It was probably produced around the end of the 13th century and is a simple piece of work, without miniatures, written on parchment, much of which was poorly cut, and it is roughly sewn together. (mes)
Standard description:
Standard description
Vielliard Françoise, Manuscrits Français du Moyen Âge, Cologny-Genève, 1975, pp. 32-34.
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DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
DOI (Digital Object Identifier
10.5076/e-codices-cb-0040 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-cb-0040)
Permanent link:
Permanent link
http://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/fmb/cb-0040
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IIIF Manifest URL
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How to quote:
How to quote
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 40: Jean Bodel, Chanson de Saisnes (http://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/fmb/cb-0040).
Online Since:
Online Since
12/21/2009
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Document Type:
Document Type
Manuscript
Century:
Century
13th century
Decoration:
Decoration
Initial, Ornamental, Penwork
Binding:
Binding
18th century
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Bodel Jean, La Chanson des Saisnes, édition critique par Annette Brasseur, 2 vol., Librairie Droz S.A., Genève, 1989.

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