Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 1635
[Part 1]
General information
| Folios | 84 |
| Language | None |
| Approx. date | c. 1300 |
| Date notes | Based on the script with two-compartment 'a' with open upper compartment but also occurences of closed upper compartment and round 's' in final position. |
| Place(s) of production | Burgundy or Lorraine |
| First words of second recto folio | [f. 2ra] C ar li maux fruiz ist de male ante . |
| First words of last recto folio | [f. 84ra] Ne la tres douce dame |
| Incipit | [f. 1ra] En nom de dieu lesperite / Qui troibles est en traite / |
| Explicit | [f. 84vb] O r se garde or se marie / Mais nen dites se bien non / L i roix no sofferroit mie . / E x pli cit |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Medium quality vellum with few holes (f. 5) and stitches (f. 3, f. 32, f. 60). The folios are not all the same size. In many cases the edges of the skin coincide with those of the leaf (f. 36, f. 37, f. 38, f. 39, f. 40, f. 59, f. 62, f. 69, f. 70, f. 78, f. 79, f. 84). In good condition. Folio 70 is mutilated in the lower outer corner. |
Structure
| Collation: | 1-58 66 7-108 96 |
| Quire structure: | This part of the manuscript mainly consists of quaternions. Quire 6 (f.41 to f. 46) and the final quire (f. 79 to f. 84) are sexternions. |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (42) |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (10) |
Physical description
| General illustration: | none |
| General decoration: | Each text starts with a puzzle initial (height: 4 to 6 lines) extending into blue and red j-borders. The text is preceded by a titulus in red ink. Directions for these titles in the margin (e.g. f. 82). Further subdivisions are indicated by means of pen-decorated initials (height: 2 lines) alternating between blue and red with flourishings in the contrasting colour. |
| Evidence of readership: | f. 1r: ancient shelfmarks in the upper margin. '1102' and '7633'. f. 10v: lower margin, 15th c. 'xv' f. 19v: lower margin, 15th c. 'lxxii' f. 30v: lower margin, 15th c. 'lxxx' f. 40v: lower margin, 15th c. 'lxviiij' f. 43v: lower margin: drawing of initial 'A' (copy or design?) f. 50v: lower margin, 15th c. 'lxxxvij' f. 61r: annotation in the upper margin 'mon bell' f. 61v: lower margin, 15th c. 'lxxiij' f. 72v: lower margin, 15th c. 'lxx' f. 77r: lower margin, 'in omnib(us)' + mark which also appears on some of the folios. |
| Foliations description: | Modern foliation in arabic numerals in the upper right corner of the recto. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | Seperate column for the majuscule letters at the beginning of the verseline. Horizontal throughlines frame the first and last lines of the folio. |
| Page sampled | f. 4ra |
| Layout | None |
| Page dimensions | 258x185 (mm) |
| Justification | 205x150 (mm) |
| Columns | 25mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Lines | 36Line ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Rubrication | Red ink is used for the pen-decorated initials and rubricated tituli at the beginning of texts. |
| 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, 84vb |
| Date | c. 1300 |
| Scribe description: | Northern textualis with two-compartment 'a' the upper compartment of which is open, but also occurences of closed upper compartment. I-longa in initial position. Round 's' in final position.Litterae elongatae on the first line of the column. Abbreviations include 'p' with crossed descender, crossed tironian note. |
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