Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 103
Le rommant de Tristan et Yseult (explicit)
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General information
| Folios | 3851 frontend papers1 backend papers |
| Folio notes: | none |
| Language | None |
| Approx. date | ?1450 to 1475 |
| Date notes | Vinaver 1925, 39 dates fr. 103 to the end of the 15th c. Haus-Collas 2009, 322 dates the MS to 1450-75. |
| Place(s) of production | RouenLocalisation given in table, that is, without expansion, at Haus-Collas 2009, 322. |
| First words of second recto folio | [f. 2ra] et haitie aterre Cil la reconforte de tout / quanquil puest . mais elle nentent / a chose quil dye . |
| First words of last recto folio | [f. 383ra] apres si que oncques puis ne fu heure / que nous ne nous entraimissons . |
| Incipit | [f. 1ra-b] Apres ce que ie vous / ay paar maintes / fois co(n)tee listoire / du saint graal . moult me merueil / que aucun ne vient qui translate / le latin en francoys . Car ce seroit / une chose que volontiers orroient / povres et riches . Et pour conter / belles adventures qui advindrent en / la brethaigne au temps du / bon roy artus . Ie luces chevalier s(ir)e du chastel de gast . voisin proucham / de salesbieres empraing a translater / du latin en francoys vne partie de / ceste siystoire . Non mie pource que ie / soye francoys ains suy anglois Et / le mieulx que ie pourray le transla / teray ce que latin en deuise de li / stoire de tristan . qui fut le plus / souverain chevalier qui oncques / fust en lagrant brethaigne deuant le roy artus et apres fors q(ue) Galaas et lancelot du lac . |
| Explicit | [f. 383rb] a landemain restoit / aussi belle et en autel estat comme / elle auoit este autrois / Cest miracle / estoit sur tristan et sur yseult . Gou / uernal et brangien co(m)mencerent a plourer et aregreter tristan / leur s(eigneu)r / et yseult leur Dame. Le roy marc / vouly detenir avec lui gouuernal et brangien et faire tou sei(n)gneur et maistre de sa terre . mais ilz ne voul / [f. 383va] drent demourer . Ains prindre(n) co(n)gie / et amenerent auec eulx perinis et / houdent / Gouuernal estoit roy de loonois et brangien royne . Si firent / perinis seneschal de toute leur terre . / Et vesquirent ensemble tant que / dieu les vould prendre a sa part . Si / face il de nous Amen . |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | none |
| Condition: | Very good. |
Structure
| Collation: | ?? |
| Quire structure: | ?? |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (18) |
| Catchwords: | ?? |
| Catchword disposition: | |
Physical description
| General description: | Expensive codex. |
| General illustration: | Single large illustration of Tristan and Yseult on f. 1r. |
| General decoration: | Two line initials with champ decoration for each paragraph openings. Otherwise plain. |
| Evidence of readership: | |
| Foliations description: | Single foliation in ink ? 19th c., top right hand corner of the recto folio. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
| Page sampled | ?? |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | ?? (mm) |
| Justification | ?? (mm) |
| Columns | 2??mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Lines | f. 18rLine ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Rubrication | none |
| Writing above top line? | False |
| Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (12) |
| Folio range | From 1r to 383v |
| Date | 1450 to 1490 |
| Scribe description: | Single compartment ‘a’, risers without loops and ‘f’ and long ‘s’ descending below the base line. Also uses two-compartment terminal ‘s’. Uses capital R at beginnings of words. |
| Notes | |
Provenance
| Description | Vinaver 1925, 40 ‘Ce manuscrit porte dans la vignette l’écu de Bourbon, et Van Praet l’a attribué pour cette raison à la bibliothèque du seigneur de la Gruythuyse (Recherches sur Louis de Bruges no. 68). Cf. Visser Fuchs in DNB 'Brugge, Lodewijk van, earl of Winchester (c. 1427- 1492): ‘ In most of these manuscripts [sc. those which ultimately became part of the BnF] Gruuthuse’s arms have been painted over with the royal arms of France, but his motto, Plus est en vous, and his emblem of a bombard usually survive’. | |
| Date | 1427 to 1492 | |
| Place | Place object (145) | |
| Ownership | Person object (18) | |
| Description | Louis XII acquired 120 MSS from the library of Louis de Bruges (See Visser Fuchs in DNB 'Brugge, Lodewijk van, earl of Winchester (c. 1427- 1492)), gathering his own library at Blois (see BNF website at http://www.bnf.fr/en/collections_and_services/dpts_eng/s.manuscripts_department.html?first_Art=non). Compare note inside front cover 'Contre la muraille vers les fosses / bloys'. | |
| Date | 1498 to 1515 | |
| Place | Place object (146) | |
| Ownership | Person object (19) | |