Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, IV 852, fragment 22
[Part 1]
General information
Folios | 2 |
Folio notes: | Bifolium. |
Language | None |
Approx. date | c. 1300 to 1350 |
Date notes | Based on the script: double-bow 'a'. Only straight 's' is used in final position. |
Place(s) of production | {unspecified}No specific linguistic features. The decorated initials might suggest a Northern provenance. |
First words of second recto folio | [f. 2ra] guerre uers moi car ie ne lui cuidoe mie |
First words of last recto folio | [f. 2ra] guerre uers moi car ie ne lui cuidoe mie |
Incipit | [f. 1ra] tant fine li p(ar)lemens entreaus si se(n) / [...] rois artus ases tentes et en / maine avoec lui la roine genieure sa feme / |
Explicit | [f. 2vb] le roi artus . Et ?t?e ?mismes? lour do(n)ne g(ra)nt / cuer (et) g(ra)nt hardeme(n)t q(ui)l o(n)t lanc(elos) en aide (et) / bo(hort) les homes del monde q(ui) plus su(n)t ?.?aio / |
Material
Material: | Material object (4) |
Watermark: | na |
Condition: | The bifolium was used as a cover for a book or booklet and is heavily wornm especially in the corners and f. 2r, the text of which has become almost entirely illegible and f. 2va. |
Structure
Collation: | na |
Quire structure: | One bifolium |
Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (21) |
Catchwords: | |
Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (12) |
Physical description
General illustration: | none |
General decoration: | The text is structured by means of decorated initials (height: 4-8 lines) in blue decorated with white flourishings on a field of scarlet framed in goldleaf. The eye of the letters is ornamented with floral patterns in red, green and goldleaf. The larger initial is inhabited by a hybrid figure, half man and half dragon. Further subdivisions are indicated by pen-decorated initials (height: 2 lines), alternatingly red and blue with flourishings in the contrasting colour. |
Evidence of readership: | Noted between the columns of f. 1v and 2r '1554'. Annotation in the upper margin of f. 2r. |
Foliations description: | None |
Mise en page
Description 1 | |
Page sampled | f. 1r |
Layout | None |
Page dimensions | 360x255 (mm) |
Justification | 272x190 (mm) |
Columns | 216mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
Lines | 50Line ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
Rubrication | |
Writing above top line? | False |
Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
Script | Script object (4) |
Folio range | From f. 1ra to f. 2vb |
Date | c. 1300 to 1350 |
Scribe description: | Northern textualis with double-bow 'a'. 'I'-longa is used in final position. Only round 's' is used in final position. Abbreviations include nasal bar, com-abbreviation, 'p' with crossed descender, crossed tironian 'et', superscript vowel, s-like apostrophe. |
Notes | |