General
| Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Sheflmark: | fonds français 12581 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (2) Segmentation: InformationSource object (2) |
| Described by: | dschoenaers |
Bindings
| Description: | Brown leather binding, the imperial eagle and decorative frame gold-tooled on the front and back. Monogram 'N', laureled and crowned on the spine, decorated with arabesques. |
| Date : | c. 1800 to 1900 |
| Title on binding: | Roman / De Graal // |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | None |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (7): | Seven paper guardleaves at the front. On the sixth guardleaf (foliated 'A'), paper fragment with shelfmark and note'De mr Le marechal D'Estées'. On the seventh guardleaf (foliated 'B'), recto and verso side, table of contents in a modern hand, listing twenty texts. The 'Queste' is described as 'La plus grande partie du roman de Graal ou les aventures des chevaliers de la table ronde le comencement manque l'auteur du roman parle ainsi de luy - Maistres gautiers maps se trest afaire son livre del graal por lamor dou roi hanri son seignor etc. Je crois que cest henry iii roy d'angleterre, ainsi ce roman fut ecrit en 1220 environ.' On the recto of the final front guardleaf, in the same hand, a note on the date of the MS (beginning of the 14th c.) and the main scribe, who names himself at the end of the 'Tresor'. |
| End papers (4): | Four paper guardleaves at the end of the MS. |
Digitisations
| Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.) | |
| Colour? | None |
| Completeness | None |
| Notes | |
Bibliography
| Reference | ': Répertoire des textes et des manuscrits médiévaux d'oc et d'oïl', (IRHT, 1998-2013) <http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr> [accessed 13 December 2014] |
| Notes | |
| Reference | 'Arthurian Fiction in Medieval Europe: Narratives and Manuscripts', (2012) <http://www.arthurianfiction.org> |
| Notes | |
| Reference | et al., 'Lancelot-Graal Project', (2010) <http://www.lancelot-project.pitt.edu/lancelot-project.html> [accessed 13 December 2014] |
| Notes |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | 1284 | Champagne |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 12581 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 429 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Good to medium quality vellum, generally in good condition. Some creases. Smudge on f. 30rv. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | 1284 |
| Notes: | Dated in the explicit of Brunetto Latini's 'Tresor'. Explicit at the end of Brunetto Latini (f. 229vb): Expletus fuit liber iste dies .xix. aug(ustus) / Anno d(omi)ni .mo. cco. lxxxiiijo. / Explicit iste liber . scriptor sit crimine lib(er) . / Vivat i(n) celis michael no(m)i(n)e felix . // This hand copied the major part of the MS. At the beginning of the 'Lucidaire' a slightly more modern hand appears to take over. Later in the MS, switch to more conservative handwriting. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 1ra to f. 429vb |
| Date(s): | c. 1250 to 1300 |
| Scribe description: | Rounded Northern textualis with two-compartment 'a' with open upper compartment, forked ascenders on 'b','h','l', uncial 'd', 'e' without tongue, limb of 'h' descend below the baseline, curving to the left, diacritic on 'i' in sequence of minims, 'i'-longa in numerals, straight 's' in final position, vertical stroke of 't' does not ascend above the headstroke, 'v' occurs in initial position, diacritic on 'y', 3-like 'z'. Abbreviations include crossed tironian 'et', 'p' with crossed descender, 'com' abbreviation, nasal bar, apostrophe, superscript vowels ('i', 'a'). Fusion of 'o' and round 'r', 'p' and 'o'. 'st' ligature. Punctus and punctus elevatus. Word-separation indicated with slanting dash. The 'Lucidaire' was copied by another hand, which appears as slightly more modern ('a' with closed upper compartement, round 's' in final position). |
Folios: f. 1ra - f. 429vb
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f. 1ra - f. 83ra
(§00-00) Queste del saint Graal (N/A)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (10) f. 82vb
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f. 83rb - f. 85vb
(§00-00) Dancus Rex. (N/A)
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f. 85vb - f. 87rb
(§00-00) Treatise on Falconry. (N/A)
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f. 88rb - f. 88vb
(§00-00) Songs. (N/A)
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f. 89ra - f. 229vb
(§00-00) Brunetto Latini, Tresor. (N/A)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (10) f. 229vb
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f. 230ra - f. 232vb
(§00-00) Songs. (N/A)
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f. 233ra - f. 311ra
(§00-00) Bible du 13e siècle. (N/A)
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f. 311ra - f. 312ra
(§00-00) ABC Plantefolie (N/A)
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f. 312ra - f. 313va
(§00-00) Les foires de Champagne. (N/A)
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f. 313ra - f. 320vb
(§00-00) Songs. (N/A)
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f. 321ra - f. 344ra
(§00-00) Lucidaire (N/A)
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f. 344 - f. 360
(§00-00) Dialogue d'un père et de son fils. (N/A)
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f. 360rb - f. 366ra
(§00-00) Description of the Holy Land. (N/A)
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f. 366rb - f. 368va
(§00-00) Légende du bois de la croix. (N/A)
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f. 368vb - f. 371vb
(§00-00) Adam de Suel, Distiques de Caton (N/A)
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f. 371vb - f. 372rb
(§00-00) Thibaut d'Amiens, Prière à Notre Dame. (N/A)
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f. 372va - f. 373vb
(§00-00) Vingt-trois manières de vilains. (N/A)
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f. 373vb - f. 375vb
(§00-00) Garin, Les tresses. (N/A)
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f. 376ra - f. 387ra
(§00-00) Livre de moralités. (N/A)
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f. 387ra - f. 407vb
(§00-00) Philippe de Novare, Les quatre temps d'age d'homme (N/A)
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f. 408ra - f. 429vb
(§00-00) Fables Pierre Aufors. (N/A)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
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