General
| Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Sheflmark: | fonds français 339 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (6) |
| Described by: | dschoenaers |
Bindings
| Description: | Modern brown leather binding on wooden boards. |
| Date : | ?1900 to 2000 |
| Title on binding: | none |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | Material object (3) |
| Fastening: | none |
| Chaining: | none |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers : | Notes about missing folios; interesting miniature (f. 38). |
| End papers : | none |
Digitisations
| Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.) | |
| Colour? | Black and White |
| Completeness | Partial |
| Notes | |
Bibliography
| Reference | 'Arthurian Fiction in Medieval Europe: Narratives and Manuscripts', (2012) <http://www.arthurianfiction.org> |
| Notes | |
| 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 | , 'Les manuscrits du Lancelot en prose (premier article)', Romania, 81 (1960), 145-87 |
| Notes | |
| Reference | et al., 'Lancelot-Graal Project', (2010) <http://www.lancelot-project.pitt.edu/lancelot-project.html> [accessed 13 December 2014] |
| Notes | |
| Reference | et al., Album de manuscrits français du XIIIe siècle: Mise en page et mise en texte (Rome: Viella, 2001) |
| Notes |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | c. 1250 | Paris |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 339 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 283 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | One folio ost at the beginning of the manuscript, seventeen folios between ff. 15 and 16, one folio torn out between ff. 264 and 265. One folio missing before the final folio (f. 283). The last folio has been heavily damaged at the top and in the outer lower corner. The top of f. 278 has been cut, resulting in text loss. Generally good quality parchment. Some irregularities in the parchment (e.g. ff. 199, 266, 267, 279), some holes (ff. 125, 250) and repairs (ff. 255, 279). |
Date Information
| Date(s): | c. 1250 |
| Notes: | Date suggested by the Lancelot-Graal project. Micha 1960, 161 has second half of the 13th c. Jonas c. 1250. Arthurian Fiction 1250-1275. The script type with both straight and round 's' in final position allows for this later dating in the third quarter of the 13th c. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 198va to f. 230rb |
| Date(s): | None |
| Scribe description: | f. 230ra: added later 'conut labele damoisele lafille auroi pelles'. Many abbreviations. |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 185ra to f. 198vb |
| Date(s): | None |
| Scribe description: | |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 231ra to f. 232vb |
| Date(s): | None |
| Scribe description: | The first two folios of the 'Queste' have been copied by the scribe of the Mort. |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 233ra to f. 263rb |
| Date(s): | None |
| Scribe description: | |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 264ra to f. 283vb |
| Date(s): | None |
| Scribe description: | |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 146ra to f. 184vb |
| Date(s): | None |
| Scribe description: | |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 17ra to f. 145vb |
| Date(s): | None |
| Scribe description: | Particular form of S as littera notabilior. |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 1 to f 16 |
| Date(s): | None |
| Scribe description: | Uses round 's' in final position. Multiple changes of scribe throughout the MS. |
Folios: 1ra - 15vb
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1r - 15v
(§Ia-00) Lancelot's childhood and adolescence to his installation as a knight of the Round Table (Single redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (12)
- ParatextualType object (12)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
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Folios: 16ra - 283vb
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16r - 00
(§00-LXXIa) Lancelot's childhood and adolescence to his installation as a knight of the Round Table (Single redaction)
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00 - 00
(§I-VIII,34) From the journey to Sorelois to the death of Galehot (non-cyclic version)
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00 - 99r
(§VIII,35-XXXV) From the journey to Sorelois to the death of Galehot (long cyclic version)
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99r - 112rb
(§XXXVI-XLII) Conte de la Charette (beta)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (1) 99r
- ParatextualType object (1) 111r
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112r - 145r
(§XLIII-LXIX) Suites de la Charette (long cyclic version)
Paratextual features:
- None f. 141
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146r - 00
(§LXX-LXXX) Agravain and preparation to the Quest (long cyclic version)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (12)
- Termination object (5): text omitted after this segment
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00 - 230r
(§LXXXII-CVIII) Agravain and preparation to the Quest (long cyclic version)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (10) f. 230r
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231r - 263r
(§00-00) Queste del saint Graal (N/A)
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264r - 283v
(§00-00) Mort le roi Artu (N/A)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
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