General
| Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Sheflmark: | fonds français 354 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (2) Segmentation: InformationSource object (2) |
| Described by: | dschoenaers |
Bindings
| Description: | Red morocco binding on pasteboard, fleurs-de-lys gold-tooled on the front, back, and spine. |
| Date : | None |
| Title on binding: | Roman / de la / Reine Ge // |
| Cover material: | Material object (6) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (3): | Three paper guardleaves at the front of the MS. |
| End papers (2): | One vellum and one paper guardleaf at the end of the MS. The vellum guardleaf is foliated 81. On the recto side, in 16 or 17th-c. writing, libri in fra(n)cese de lo re artus et piu altri signori tracta de / amor et de joust??la?? altre batagle' 'fragment dung vieil rommant / traictant de la royne Jeneure'. |
Digitisations
| Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.) | |
| Colour? | Colour |
| 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 | , 'Les manuscrits du Lancelot en prose (premier article)', Romania, 81 (1960), 145-87 |
| Notes |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | c. 1280 to 1300 | Genoa-Pisa |
Related MS
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 354 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 80 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Poor quality vellum with holes and stitches in the written space (e.g. ff. 8, 16, 18, 21, 28, 34, 37, etc.). Folio 1 severely damaged. Parchment has been pillaged from the lower margins of ff. 1, 5, 7, 71. In numerous instances, the ink has faded or been entirely erased (e.g. f. 7r, 67r) Stains (e.g. ff. 2r, 7v, 59v). |
Date Information
| Date(s): | c. 1280 to 1300 |
| Notes: | Date suggested by the Lancelot-Graal project. Arthurian Fiction gives 1290 to 1320. Jonas has 14th. c. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 1ra to f. 80vb |
| Date(s): | c. 1280 to 1300 |
| Scribe description: | Rounded Southern textualis, with two-compartment 'a', the upper lobe of which is open, uncial 'd' with short, near-horizontal ascender, 'e' with tongue in final position, 8-like 'g' with angular lower lobe, no diacritic on 'i', 'q' with exceptionally short descender, round and straight 's' in final position, 3-like 'z'. Relatively few abbreviations which include uncrossed tironian 'et', apostrophe, very short nasal bar. Fusion of 'de', 'ci', 'co', 'ce'.'st' ligature. Punctus, |
Folios: f. 1r - f. 80v
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f. 1ra - f. 2ra
(§XLII,5-XLII) Conte de la Charette (alpha)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
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f. 2ra - f. 6vb
(§XLIII-XLIII,45) Suites de la Charette (long cyclic version)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
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f. 7ra - f. 78vb
(§XLIV,3-LXIX) Suites de la Charette (long cyclic version)
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f. 78vb - f. 78vb
(§LXX-LXX,3) Agravain and preparation to the Quest (long cyclic version)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
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f. 79ra - f. 80vb
(§LXX,13-LXXI,5) Agravain and preparation to the Quest (long cyclic version)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
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