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Detailed record for Egerton 745
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| Title |
Life of Eustace and other saints, and a collection of moral treatises |
| Origin |
France, Central (Paris) |
| Date |
1st half of the 14th century |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Artists |
Attributed to the Maubeuge painter (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 10132), a collaborator of the Sub-Fauvel Master (ff. 25, 27v, 28v, 30v, 33, 33v, 35v, 36v, 38v, 39v, 73, 78v, 91, 213v), and two other painters (A: Life of St Eustace, ff. 1-9, and Life of St Denis, ff. 41-72v; B: 131, 199v, 207) (see Stones 1998). |
| Decoration |
9 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 2, 3v, 4, 5v, 6, 7v, 8v, 9). Small column-wide miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 25 (x2), 27v, 28v, 30v, 33, 33v, 35v, 36v, 38v, 42 (x2), 42v (x2), 43v (x2), 47 (x2), 47v (x2), 48v (x2), 49v (x2), 52, 55v (x2), 56v (x2), 63, 66 (x2), 67 (x2), 67v, 68 (x2), 69, 73, 78, 81v, 91, 131, 199v, 207, 213v). Small double-column-wide miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 44v, 45, 46, 50, 50v, 51, 51v, 52, 53, 53v, 54, 54v, 57, 57v, 58, 59v, 61v, 62, 62v, 63v, 64v, 65); offsets of missing miniatures on ff. 24v and 41. Large and small initials in gold on red and blue grounds. |
| Dimensions in mm |
235 x 175 (175 x 120) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 232 (+ 1 blank leaf after f. 24; + 1 unfoliated original flyleaf at the beginning, and 1 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. 18th(?)-century green velvet. |
| Provenance |
Gui III de Châtillon (b. c. 1265, d. 1317), or his son Jean (d. 1344), Counts of St Pol: knight kneeling before the Virgin wearing the arms of the Counts of St Pol, followed by an initial including the arms (f. 33).
Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839 (note on 1st flyleaf), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
The original sequence of the texts has been changed. The manuscript consists of four blocks of texts (see Rouse and Rouse, 'Saint-Pol' (2010):
ff. 1-24: Life of St Eustace (quires i-v)
ff. 25-40: Les x commandements, Laidenge et convoitise, Rule of St Benedict in French, Les xv joies de la Vierge, Les meditations, Les vii vertus, Une proiere d'un chevalier devant Nostre Dame, three sermons attributed to Gregory, and Les Vers d'aumosne (quires vi-vii);
ff. 41-90v: Vie de Saint Denis, Vie de Saint Martin, Vie de Saint Gildas, Auctorites (quires viii-xiv);
ff. 91-232: Life of Edward the Confessor, Barlaam et Josapat, Chaton en romans, De doctrinal le sauvage and Les moralites (quires xiii-xxxii). |
| Select bibliography |
List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), Eg. no. 745.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 9,
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), II (1893), pp. 137-39.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 11.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library 1997), no. 76.
Alison Stones, 'The Stylistic Context of the Roman de Fauvel, with a Note on Fauvain', in Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music, and Image in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS français 146, ed. by Margaret Bent and Andrew Wathey (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), 529-67 (pp. 546, 559).
Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 20.
Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse, 'French Literature and the Counts of Saint-Pol ca. 1178-1377', Viator, 41/1 (2010), 101-140 (pp. 118-22).
Alison Stones,Gothic manuscripts, 1260-1320 4 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 2013), 1.I, pp. 104, 119, 1.II, pp. 62, 132, 137, 2.II, pp. 93, 250, 251-57. |
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f. 1
Baptism of Eustace |
f. 2
Eustace with a wolf and a lion |
f. 3v
Eustace addressing Trajan's envoys |
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f. 4
Eustace before a king |
f. 5v
Battle |
f. 6
Reunion of Eustace’s sons |
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f. 7v
Eustace rand his family |
f. 8v
Eustace in the lion's den. |
f. 9
Eustace in the brazen bull |
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f. 24v
Image offset |
f. 25
The Ten Commandments |
f. 27v
Laidenge et convoitise |
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f. 28v
Benedict |
f. 30v
Ave Maria |
f. 33
Count de Chatillon praying |
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f. 33
Knight praying to the Virgin and Child |
f. 33v
Pope Gregory preaching |
f. 33v
Gregory's first sermon |
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f. 35v
Detail of a miniature of Pope Gregory preaching to a crowd, ... |
f. 35v
Gregory's second sermon |
f. 36v
Gregory's third sermon |
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f. 36v
Gregory's third sermon |
f. 38v
Almsgiving |
f. 38v
Giving bread to the poor |
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f. 39v
Illuminated initials |
f. 42
Peter and Paul, Nero |
f. 42v
Pope Clement |
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f. 43v
Denis, Regulus and idols falling |
f. 44v
Denis, Eleutherius and Rusticus |
f. 45
Dedicating a church |
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f. 46
Denis preaching |
f. 46
Denis preaching |
f. 47
Domitian; a martyrdom |
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f. 47v
Denis preaching |
f. 47v
Denis persecuted |
f. 48v
Denis, Santicus and Antoninus; Denis and Sisinnius |
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f. 49v
Larcia; beheading of Lisbius |
f. 50
Denis flogged |
f. 50v
Denis on the grill |
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f. 51
Lions' den |
f. 52
Crucifixion; miraculous communion |
f. 53
Sissinius shows bodies of martyrs |
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f. 53v
Denis flogged |
f. 54v
Doves at Arles |
f. 55v
Denis with his severed head; souls ascend to Heaven |
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f. 56v
Martyrdom of Larcia |
f. 57
Burial of Denis |
f. 57v
Regulus blessing the tomb |
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f. 58
Catulla baptised |
f. 59v
Antoninus |
f. 61v
Sadragesillus, Chlotar and Dagobert |
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f. 62
Clothar pursues Dagobert |
f. 62v
Clothar seeks Dagobert |
f. 63
Clothar and Dagobert reunited |
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f. 63v
Coronation of Dagobert; translation of the relics |
f. 64v
Leper at St Denis |
f. 65
Dedication of St Denis |
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f. 66
Leper miraculously cured |
f. 67
Dagobert dying |
f. 67v
Bishops and cleric |
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f. 68
Dagobert's soul rescued |
f. 69
Ansoald and Audoenus |
f. 73
Martin of Vertou |
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f. 78
Gildas instructing a pupil |
f. 80
Text page |
f. 81v
Men with gloves |
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f. 91
Edward the Confessor |
f. 131
Barlaam instructing Josaphat |
f. 199v
Cato and pupil |
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f. 207
Bernard le Sauvage |
f. 213v
Clerics debating |
f. 214v
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f. 232v
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