General
| Library: | British Library |
| Sheflmark: | Additional 23929 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (1) |
| Described by: | hgrange |
Bindings
| Description: | Brown leather over wooden boards, with blind-tooling (Gonzaga emblems). |
| Date : | ?1400 to 1499 |
| Title on binding: | |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | Material object (3) |
| Fastening: | Clasps still on binding, but fastening missing |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (5): | 4 modern paper; 1 parchment (with musical notation). |
| End papers (4): | 4 modern paper. |
Bibliography
| Reference | , Tristano e Lancillotto in Italia: studi di letteratura arturiana (Ravenna: Longo, 1998a) |
| Notes | p. 53 |
| Reference | , 'Per un riesame della tradizione del Tristan in prosa, con nuove osservazioni sul ms. Paris, BnF, fr. 756-757', in Francesco Benozzo (ed.), Culture, livelli di cultura e ambienti nel Medioevo occidentale. Atti del IX Convegno della Società Italiana di Filologia Romanza (S.I.F.R.), Bologna, 5-8 ottobre 2009 (Rome: Aracne, 2012), pp. 247-78 |
| Notes | p. 258 |
| Reference | , 'I Tristani dei Gonzaga', in J. Claude Faucon, Alain Labbé and Danielle Quéruel (eds), Miscellanea mediaevalia: Mélanges offerts à Philippe Ménard, 2 vols (Paris: H. Champion, 1998b), vol. 1, pp. 385-93 |
| Notes | Suggests that no. 63 in the 1407 inventory of the Gonzaga MSS was the model for BL, Add. 23929 (p. 390). |
| Reference | ., Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in The British Museum, Vol I. (London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1883) |
| Notes | I:357-8 |
| Reference | , Études sur le 'Tristan' en prose: les sources, les manuscrits, bibliographie critique (Paris: Champion, 1925) |
| Notes | pp. 47-8 |
| Reference | , Le Tristan et le Palamède des manuscrits français du British Museum: étude critique (Christiania: Dybwad, 1905) |
| Notes | pp. 4-8. Suggests Add. 23929 begins by following the version represented by BnF, fr. 334, follows BnF, fr. 756 from f. 12, and returns to BnF, fr. 334 at f. 26. |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | ?1350 to 1399 | Northern Italy, Padua | none |
| [Part 2] | ?1375 to 1425 | Northern Italy, Padua | none |
MS Part Library: British Library
General
| Shelfmark: | Additional 23929 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 64 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Fine quality parchment, with wide margins. There are occasional tears (e.g. ff. 16 and 46) and holes (e.g. f. 50). Ink has sometimes rubbed (e.g. f. 1r, text restored by a modern hand), and a few stains render text illegible (e.g. f. 23v). |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1350 to 1399 |
| Notes: | 'Late XIVth cent.' (Ward 1883, I:357; cf. Løseth 1905, 4; Delcorno Branca 1998b, 339; Allaire 2002, 17); 'sec. XIVex - XVin' (Cigni 2012, 258). |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From 1ra to 64ra |
| Date(s): | ?1350 to 1399 |
| Scribe description: | A regular Italian textualis of the late 14th c., whose traits include: two-compartment 'a' (open upper bow); 'h' with limb resting on baseline; both tall, round and trailing 's' all found in final position; 'u' in initial position; angular 3-shaped 'z'; abbreviations including uncrossed tironian 'et' and 'd(e)'. |
MS Part Library: British Library
General
| Shelfmark: | Additional 23929 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 2] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 23 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Very good quality parchment, with creasing half-way down folios. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1375 to 1425 |
| Notes: | 'late XIVth cent.' (Ward 1883, I:357, cf. Delcorno Branca 1998b, 389; cf. Allaire 2002, 17); 'sec. XIVex - XVin' (Cigni 2012, 258). |
Hand
Folios: 1ra - 64ra
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1ra - 36vb
(§Prologue-Lös. 19) Prologue, and Tristan's ancestry (Common Version)
Paratextual features:
Images:
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36vb - 64ra
(§Lös. 20-Lös. 34) Tristan's adventures in Ireland, Brittany, and the Morrois (Italian Sequence 1 (It. 1))
- Termination object (8): folios added after this segment
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Folios: 64ra - 86va