Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 189
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General information
| Folios | 78 |
| Language | Language object (48) |
| Approx. date | ?1275 to 1325 |
| Date notes | 'Fourteenth century' (Murrell 1927, 87; cf. Murrell 1930, 56; Curtis 1963, 1:14; Baumgartner 1975, 18); 'début du XlVe s.' (Frappier 1936, xxix); 'late 13th cent.' (Allaire and Psaki 2002, 1:19), 'sec. XIIIex' (Cigni 2009, 265). The late 13th c. is more likely, on palaeographical grounds. |
| Place(s) of production | Genoa, Northern Italy'Northern Italian production' (Allaire and Psaki 2002, 1:19); 'Italia del Nord (Genova?)' (Cigni 2009, 265). |
| First words of second recto folio | [f. 2ra] destorbuz (et) agreuain dit |
| First words of last recto folio | [f. 78ra] mort (et) tant de (com)paigno(n) |
| Incipit | [f. 1ra] Apres ce qe maistres. Gautiers map o??...?? / porter aidez deus auetures dou saint / graal |
| Explicit | [f. 89vb] Et ie endroit / moi merce m(ou)lt lou Roi . henri monseign- / or de ce qil loe le mie liure . Et de ce qil / li done sigrant príz: // Ex plicit la mort monsingnor T(ristan) // |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Mediocre parchment, often dark in appearance, with several holes and sewn tears (including within the text block). The text is at times illegible due to humidity damage and rubbing of the ink. |
Structure
| Collation: | 1-98 108 (wants 7-8) |
| Quire structure: | Nine regular quaternions (ff. 1-72), and a quaternion whose final two leaves have been lost (ff. 73-8). |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (15) |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (9) |
Physical description
| General illustration: | |
| General decoration: | On f. 1ra, a large (height: c.10 lines), damaged painted initial on a gold ground with foliate in-fill. Major textual divisions, including start of the Prose Tristan fragment, marked by puzzle initials (height: 6 lines) in red and blue. Chapters marked by two-line plain initials, (predominantly) alternating red and blue (guide letters generally visible). |
| Evidence of readership: | On f. 10ra, a maniculum beside 'Qar de si aut arbre ne proies uos pas le / fruit coil lir.' Most of f. 42vb has been marked 'vacat'. |
| Foliations description: | Arabic numerals, entered in ink by a modern hand, in the upper right corner of recto sides. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
| Page sampled | f. 39r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 307x207 (mm) |
| Justification | 216x156 (mm) |
| Columns | 210mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Lines | 42Line ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Rubrication | Rubric reserved for the explicit of the Mort Artu on f. 64vb. |
| Writing above top line? | False |
| Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (1) |
| Folio range | From 1ra to 78vb |
| Date | ?1275 to 1300 |
| Scribe description: | Two-compartment 'a' (open upper bow); uncial 'd' with short, almost horizontal shaft; 'e' sometimes with tongue; figure-8 'g'; tall 's' in all positions. Use of tironian 'et' without bar. |
| Notes | |