General
| Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Sheflmark: | fonds français 2455 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (2) Segmentation: InformationSource object (2) |
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Bindings
| Description: | Leather binding on wooden boards. |
| Date : | None |
| Title on binding: | |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | Material object (3) |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers : | One vellum guardleaf at the front of the MS, mutilated. 15th-c ex libris on the verso side '[Ce] est le liure du saint g(re)al / [le] q(ue)l est au monchet de / [b]esancon'. This note suggests that the MS was owned by the Mouchet / Monchet family from Besançon (East France). |
| End papers : | One vellum guardleaf at the end of the MS. Modern notes (as on the front guardleaf) with references to the text. 15th-c notes 'Je me reto [...] de a??..??s' ' A mon che(r)s (et) g(ra)nt amj / me retou[...]'. Note in Latin in the lower margin. |
Digitisations
| Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.) | |
| Colour? | Black and White |
| Completeness | Full |
| 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 | |
| Reference | , 'Le scribe-éditeur du Paris, BnF, français 2455. Le créateur d'une version particulière de l'Estoire del Saint Graal', in Combes, A. and M. Szkilnik (eds.), Le texte dans le texte. L'interpolation médiévale (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013), pp. 197-214 |
| Notes |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | c. 1250 to 1300 | East France |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 2455 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 338 folios |
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Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Lower quality parchment with holes, also in the written space (e.g. ff. 19, 29, 159). The guardleaf at the front has been mutilated. Folios of uneven size (or trimmed afterwards), e.g. ff. 21, 177, 178. Edge of the folio coincides with the edge of the skin, e.g. inner corner of( ff. 23, 161, 330). ff. 336-337 damaged in the inner lower corner. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | c. 1250 to 1300 |
| Notes: | The Lancelot-Graal project suggests c. 1300. Arthurian Fiction has 13th c. Jonas gives 14th c. The writing supports a date in the second half of the 13th c, possibly third quarter. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (5) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 2r to f. 388r |
| Date(s): | c. 1250 to 1300 |
| Scribe description: | Northern textualis, currens, two-compartment 'a' with open upper compartment, uncial 'd', 'e' with tongue, some instances of looped 'd', 8-like 'g' with looped lower lobe, limb of 'h' curves below the baseline, 'i'-longa in final position, straight 's' in final position, 3-like 'z'. Abbreviations include nasal bar, crossed tironian 'et', superscript vowels, 'p' with crossed descender. Fusion of 'o' and round 'r'. 'st' ligature. |
Folios: f. 2r - f. 203v
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f. 2r - f. 203v
(§00-00) Estoire del saint Graal (N/A)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
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Folios: f. 204r - f. 338r
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f. 204r - 00
(§00-00) Estoire del saint Graal (N/A)
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00 - f. 338r
(§00-00) Joseph d'Arimathie en prose (N/A)
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f. 338r - f. 338r
(§00-00) Estoire Merlin (N/A)
- Termination object (5): text omitted after this segment
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