Bruce Brasington <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I'd also add that Martin Brett and I, as we've worked the last 4 years
on this edition, have seen more and more--or perhaps, more honestly put--felt
more and more the presence of an Ivonian circle. Dear Bruce,
>If you or anyone else is interested in the "reception" of the Panormia,
especially via glossed manuscripts, let me know.
Dear Bruce,
thanks; my own interest is fairly intensely focused in the prosopography of
the (mostly lesser) gentry of the region, 11th-13th cc., and the contraversies
they were embroiled in which might have generated the documents by which i can
reconstruct it (e.g., a married canon --Paganus de Mongervilla, i think it
was-- from c.1100 who was in the LePuiset
crew and probably forced out of the chapter by Ivo the Knitpicker).
so, i suppose that if the provenance of any of the early mss could be nailed
down to some local house, that might be of some use, somehow.
surely St John's --"reformed" by Ivo-- must have been interested, though i'm
not sure i've ever heard of mss from that house, save for the cartularies.
btw, i had an interesting experience in chartres, circa 1986, when i somewhat
naively asked to see a 12th c. ms of ivo's letters in the city library.
a small box was brought out, very dusty with a stencilled "C.A.R.E. POWDERED
MILK" on its sides.
within, wrapped in seperate packets of _France Soir_, circa 1947, were
the remains of the disbound mss.
very small leaves, with tiny, *tiny* writing in a beautiful, perfectly
legible, script. i'd been working quite a bit in the departmental archives,
going through a lot of 11th-13th c. charters and i found this hand to be quite
extraordinary, compared to the ones i was used to
seeing.
the more i looked, the more amazed i became, just astonished at how someone
could write so small and so clear.
finally it dawned on me (duh) that the krinkling of the parchment might
be a clue.
the ms had, of course, been in the 1945 fire, been thoroughly soaked and, as i
saw from a note within the box, been sent to the restoration
services section of the BN.
it had just shrunk.
best from here,
christopher
p.s. as you surely know, btw, the indications in the catalogue of mss at the
BM in Chartres as to the condition of the mss are not always reliable
--sometimes there is more there to be seen than the blue pencilled notes
would lead one to believe.
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