General
| Library: | Morgan Library & Museum |
| Sheflmark: | M 916 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (1) |
| Described by: | nmorato |
Bindings
| Description: | In the internal side of the upper board, on a pastedown, a 17th c. hand wrote a note: En dieu Laffin / Sallin // Ce present liure est ung uiel romant contenent / les entreprises prouesses et faitz darmes de plusieurs / cheualliers de la Table Ronde fondee par le Roy / uterpandragon de la grand bretaigne du temps dudit / Roy que de celluy du Roy Artus son filz no(n) iamais / imprime se doubt garder pour son Antiquite / Sallin. The MS presented also a note (now removed from it) by Costanzo Gazzera, librarian of the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria of Turin, written for the Marquis d’Aix à la Serraz, former owner the manuscript. |
| Date : | c. 1800 |
| Title on binding: | LA TABLE / RONDE / DE LANCELOS // AU TEMPS / DU ROI UTER / PANDRAGON (title on the spine) |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | None |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers : | Under the top margin of f. Ir, a 16th c. hand wrote in plummet: Laurent Piochet de Chambéry. In the center, the ex libris of Ambroise Firmin-Didot with the date 1850. In the center, the ex libris of Lucien Graux. On the bottom of the page, the ex libris of the Pierpont Morgan Library, under which a contemporary hand wrote in pencil M 916. |
| End papers : |
Bibliography
| Reference | , Il ciclo di 'Guiron le Courtois': strutture e testi nella tradizione manoscritta (Florence: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010) |
| Notes | Morato 2010, 20. |
| Reference | , 'Guiron le Courtois'. Étude de la tradition manuscrite et analyse critique (Geneva: Droz, 1966) |
| Notes | Lathuillère 1966, 90-1. |
| Reference | , Les Aventures des Bruns. Compilazione guironiana del secolo XIII attribuibile a Rustichello da Pisa, (Florence: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014) |
| Notes | Lagomarsini 2014, 283-86, with a study of the language of the copy. M 916 (N) is the 'manuscrit de surface' (reference MS) for the edition of the Compilazione guironiana. |
MS Parts
MS Part Library: Morgan Library & Museum
General
| Shelfmark: | M 916 |
| MS Part Title: | Cestui liure parle de Giron et de / Galhot le brun . et de Segurans / lebrun et de tous les bons ch(eua)l(ie)rs du temps du roy . Uterpendra- / gon . encore parle de tous les bo(n)s / cheualiers qui furent ou temps / du roy artus . (rubric, f. 1ra) |
| Ms Part Folios: | 156 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Humidity slightly stained the bottom margin of the folios. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | 1440 to 1460 |
| Notes: | cf. Morato 2010, 20; Lagomarsini 2014, 66-67 et passim ("manuscrit de surface" for the edition of the Aventures des Bruns). |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (5) |
| Folio(s): | From to |
| Date(s): | 1440 to 1460 |
| Scribe description: |
Folios: 1ra - 154rb
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1ra - 52ra
(§Lath. 203-Lath. 222) Compilation. Guiron's fortunes and misfortunes (first sequence)
Related or similar
- This sequence, a reworking of the Suite Guiron of Arsenal 3325, is common to BnF fr. 358, Bodmer 96, BNL Ash. 123, BAV Reg. Lat. 1501. For a synthesis of the tradition of the First Sequence, cf. Morato 2010, 225 and Lagomarsini 2014, 209-214.
Shared by:
- Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reginense latino 1501
- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 123
- Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 3325
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 358
- Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, 96 I
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52ra - 60ra
(§Lath. 223-Lath. 224) Compilation. Adventures of the Bruns 1 (second sequence)
Related or similar
- Lath. 223-224 is to be found also in BnF fr. 340, 355, 358, BS Hamilton 581, Bodmer 96, BNL Ash. 123, BL 36673, BAV Reg. lat. 1501.
Shared by:
- Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reginense latino 1501
- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 123
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 355
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 340
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 358
- London, British Library, Additional 36673
- Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, 96 I
- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 581
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60ra - 82va
(§Lath. 206-Lath. 242) Compilation. Galeholt and Guiron (third sequence)
Related or similar
- Lath. 206-240 + 242 is to be found in BnF 340, 355, BS Hamilton 851, Bodmer 96, BNL Ash. 123, BL 36673.
Shared by:
- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 123
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 355
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 340
- London, British Library, Additional 36673
- Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, 96 I
- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 581
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82va - 143rb
(§na-na) Continuation of PML M 916 (singular version)
Related or similar
- The account of the death of Calinan, part of Lath 242 (transcribed in Lagomarsini 2014, ed. §§ 218-229), has been interpolated in the continuation of PML M 916 at ff. 143rb-147va. The same episode is witnessed also, as part of Lath. 242, in BnF fr. 340, BS Hamilton 581, Bodmer 96.
Shared by:
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 340
- Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, 96 I
- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 581
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