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Ceo ditte de husbonderie fist un chivaler sir Walter de Henleye

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Title
Ceo ditte de husbonderie fist un chivaler sir Walter de Henleye
Alternative Title
  • Hosbondrye
  • Case spine title: Manuscript on vellum of Hosbondrye
  • Title from binding: Walter of Henley, Husbandry, 14th cent.
  • First line of text: Ceo d[i]tte de husbonderie fist un chivaler sir Walt[e]r de Henleye qe puys se rendi en le ord[e]r de frer[e] predicheur
Creator
Henley, Walter de  
Date
1300-1350  
Publication Place
England
Description
  • No restrictions on access.
  • Arlima https://arlima.net/no/2146.
  • Jonas http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/oeuvre/11285.
  • D. Oschinsky, Walter of Henley: And Other Treatises on Estate Management and Accounting.
  • R. J. Dean and M. B. McCann Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts.
  • Binding: Modern brown morocco binding, with stamp reading "Bound by Riviere & Son" on lower border of front pastedown, and with gold-embossed title reading "Walter of Henley Husbandry 14th cent" on front cover.
  • Last leaf wanting.
  • Date of production conjectured from evidence present in text.
  • In Anglo-Norman French; Cursiva Anglicana.
  • Shelf-mark: Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 MS 0263.
  • A note on the upper-left corner of the front pastedown reads "10789" and, right below, separated by a line, "1939", likely indicating that the manuscript was purchased in 1939. Inscription on the lower-left corner of the front pastedown reads "£28" with "R. Arms" below.
  • Provenance: Formerly part of the Rothamsted Collection from Lawes Agricultural Library; sold, Forum Auctions, 2018; purchased from Jonathan Hill Bookseller as the University of Illinois Library's 15-millionth volume, 21 February 2020.
  • Decoration: 24 large calligraphic initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red; red and blue capitula.
  • Title reads in full: Ceo d[i]tte de husbonderie fist un chivualer sir Walt[er] de Henleye qe puys se rendi en le ord[e]r de frer[e] predicheurs et aprent a la gent coment bone det viuer sagement et honestament de lur bien et ne mye et par wast avant megn qelqe auigne apres.
  • Title transcribed from first line of text.
  • 14th-century manuscript of Walter of Henley's Husbandry, also known as "Hosbondrye" or "Le Dite de Hosebondrie", formerly part of the Lawes Agricultural Library at Rothamsted Experimental Station. The work, likely written around 1280, is considered to be one of the most influential texts on agriculture and land management of the middle-ages, and is one of six treatises on agricultural property management that survive from the mid- or late thirteenth-century England. The volume appears to be one of forty-one surviving manuscript copies of the work, with this variant likely deriving from the first redaction of the treatise, when the sermon-like text was edited so that it could be used as a didactic treatise. It is also one of three extant manuscripts that include a bibliographical note referring to the author as a knight who later became a friar preacher, the other two being: Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.7.6(2), ff. 8v-10v; and The Free Library of Philadelphia, MS LC 14.3.
  • Published between circa 1300 and circa 1350.
Extent
1 volume (8 leaves) : vellum
Dimensions
20 x 14 cm
Language
Old French
Topical Subject
  • Economic history  
  • Land tenure  
  • Land use, Rural  
  • History  
  • Farm management  
  • Home economics, Rural  
  • Conduct of life  
  • Agriculture  
Geographic Subject
  • England  
  • Illinois  
  • Urbana (Ill.)  
Genre Subject
  • Signed bindings  
  • Early works to 1800  
  • Manuscripts, Medieval  
  • Specimens  
Associated Entities
  • Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)
  • Rothamsted Experimental Station. Library
  • Riviere & Son
  • Bellot, Jacques
Collection Title
Digital Rare Book Collection
Repository
Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Type
Manuscript  
Bibliographic Identifier
99943317912205899
Collection
Digital Rare Book Collection
TitleCeo ditte de husbonderie fist un chivaler sir Walter de Henleye
Alternative Title
  • Hosbondrye
  • Case spine title: Manuscript on vellum of Hosbondrye
  • Title from binding: Walter of Henley, Husbandry, 14th cent.
  • First line of text: Ceo d[i]tte de husbonderie fist un chivaler sir Walt[e]r de Henleye qe puys se rendi en le ord[e]r de frer[e] predicheur
CreatorHenley, Walter de  
Date1300-1350  
Publication PlaceEngland
Description
  • No restrictions on access.
  • Arlima https://arlima.net/no/2146.
  • Jonas http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/oeuvre/11285.
  • D. Oschinsky, Walter of Henley: And Other Treatises on Estate Management and Accounting.
  • R. J. Dean and M. B. McCann Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts.
  • Binding: Modern brown morocco binding, with stamp reading "Bound by Riviere & Son" on lower border of front pastedown, and with gold-embossed title reading "Walter of Henley Husbandry 14th cent" on front cover.
  • Last leaf wanting.
  • Date of production conjectured from evidence present in text.
  • In Anglo-Norman French; Cursiva Anglicana.
  • Shelf-mark: Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 MS 0263.
  • A note on the upper-left corner of the front pastedown reads "10789" and, right below, separated by a line, "1939", likely indicating that the manuscript was purchased in 1939. Inscription on the lower-left corner of the front pastedown reads "£28" with "R. Arms" below.
  • Provenance: Formerly part of the Rothamsted Collection from Lawes Agricultural Library; sold, Forum Auctions, 2018; purchased from Jonathan Hill Bookseller as the University of Illinois Library's 15-millionth volume, 21 February 2020.
  • Decoration: 24 large calligraphic initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red; red and blue capitula.
  • Title reads in full: Ceo d[i]tte de husbonderie fist un chivualer sir Walt[er] de Henleye qe puys se rendi en le ord[e]r de frer[e] predicheurs et aprent a la gent coment bone det viuer sagement et honestament de lur bien et ne mye et par wast avant megn qelqe auigne apres.
  • Title transcribed from first line of text.
  • 14th-century manuscript of Walter of Henley's Husbandry, also known as "Hosbondrye" or "Le Dite de Hosebondrie", formerly part of the Lawes Agricultural Library at Rothamsted Experimental Station. The work, likely written around 1280, is considered to be one of the most influential texts on agriculture and land management of the middle-ages, and is one of six treatises on agricultural property management that survive from the mid- or late thirteenth-century England. The volume appears to be one of forty-one surviving manuscript copies of the work, with this variant likely deriving from the first redaction of the treatise, when the sermon-like text was edited so that it could be used as a didactic treatise. It is also one of three extant manuscripts that include a bibliographical note referring to the author as a knight who later became a friar preacher, the other two being: Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.7.6(2), ff. 8v-10v; and The Free Library of Philadelphia, MS LC 14.3.
  • Published between circa 1300 and circa 1350.
Extent1 volume (8 leaves) : vellum
Dimensions20 x 14 cm
LanguageOld French
Topical Subject
  • Economic history  
  • Land tenure  
  • Land use, Rural  
  • History  
  • Farm management  
  • Home economics, Rural  
  • Conduct of life  
  • Agriculture  
Geographic Subject
  • England  
  • Illinois  
  • Urbana (Ill.)  
Genre Subject
  • Signed bindings  
  • Early works to 1800  
  • Manuscripts, Medieval  
  • Specimens  
Associated Entities
  • Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)
  • Rothamsted Experimental Station. Library
  • Riviere & Son
  • Bellot, Jacques
Collection TitleDigital Rare Book Collection
RepositoryRare Book & Manuscript Library
TypeManuscript  
Bibliographic Identifier99943317912205899
CollectionDigital Rare Book Collection

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