New York, Morgan Library & Museum, M. 38
L’Ystoyre du Saint-Grail
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General information
| Folios | 2911 frontend papers2 backend papers |
| Folio notes: | Written on paper. |
| Language | Language object (44) |
| Approx. date | 1479 |
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| Place(s) of production | Belgium |
| First words of second recto folio | COMMENT (letters highlighted in red) ??Uretwyen ?? fut roy en la gran[t] Bertai[n]ge |
| First words of last recto folio | Et qua[n]t le roy |
| Incipit | Ci comance le Rubricque de chapit[re]s / De ce p[??}nt livre quy est appelle le Sai[n]t grail / ou quel on pourra veoir chascun chapit[re] |
| Explicit | Explicit lystoyre du Stgrail / …. a Bruges a lan m cccc / Explicit lystoyre du sst. Graal / escripte a Bruges lan M cccc lxxix de la mai[n]g de loys daymeryes. Finito libro sit laus et Gloria xpo. Scriptor q scripsit in cristo vive(re) possit.” AMEN |
Material
| Material: | Material object (1) |
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Physical description
| General description: | 28.5 cm (height) x 21 cm (width) Bound in Bordeaux Moroccan calf leather (ca. 1830 according to the PM’s notes) by P. Dufey. Tooled cover and backboard with 5 parallel straight lines around the outer edge (extending from 1 cm to 2.7 cm from the outer edge). Tooled squares ( 8 mm on each side) sit in each corner, back and front with three short parallel lines on two sides. This gives the binding a geometric appearance. Light green and black marbled paper line the inner and outer cover and form one side of the first flyleaf. |
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| General decoration: | f. 2 the extreme left upper edge of the page is floriated in red, blue, green and gold, containing images of vines, leaves, acorns, and buds and this extends down the left hand margin for roughly the same distance, forming a sort of cornice (1.8 cm deep x 8.2 cm in length on the top; 1.5 cm x 10.2 cm running down the left hand margin). Large blue illuminated initial C begins the text (3.8 cm x 3.8 cm). The golden C sits upon his background and within its round central section there are 3 golden keys. In this area, the blue background sits atop a pink further background. |
| Evidence of readership: | Provenance- Rolin, Ysembert de, bailly d’Aymeries. (d. 1528) “ Roysin, Jehanne de Guillemont “ Veusels, de, canon of Tournai (before 1611) “ Barrois, Jean Baptiste Joseph. 1780-1855. “ Ashburnham, Bertram, 4th earl. “ Kerr, John E. ca. 1903 |
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| Level of Execution: | Execution object (5) |
| Script | Script object (7) |
| Folio range | From to |
| Date | 1479 |
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Provenance
| Description | Provenance- Rolin, Ysembert de, bailly d’Aymeries. (d. 1528) “ Roysin, Jehanne de Guillemont “ Veusels, de, canon of Tournai (before 1611) “ Barrois, Jean Baptiste Joseph. 1780-1855. “ Ashburnham, Bertram, 4th earl. “ Kerr, John E. ca. 1903 | |
| Date | 1479 | |
| Place | Place object (145) | |