Tours, Bibliothèque municipale, 953

Cest livre est le troian a parole

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General information

Folios61
1 frontend papers
2 backend papers
LanguageLanguage object (48)
Approx. date?1290 to 1310
Date notesOltrogge 1989, p. 315.
Place(s) of productionGenoa-Pisa
Zinelli (2012), p. 163 notes there are instructions to the illustrator in Pisan.
First words of second recto folio[f. 2ra] il feist .j. nef m(o)lt belle (et) ap /
First words of last recto folio[f. 61ra] (et) li latin uirent ceste chose /
Incipit[f. 1ra] Ceste liure est le troian / (et) parole coment troie / fu destruite . (et) coment / le gent sen partirent / (et) quell uille il populere / nt / A /Utens que laomedon esto / it nouellement roi a troie / qui encore nestoit adonc / oesi grant renomee con / elle fu puis . Cis laomed / on nestoia premier <-rome> / troie mie . ains labita premier friga qui fu de la lignee dou fil Iafet (et) de de / son nom ot nom premier / frigia . Et decestui comen / cerent primiers les habi / tacion dela terre (et) dela ci / [1rb] te qui puis fu apellee tro / ie .
Explicit [f. 61vb] dela cite . quar ie lauoud / roie prendre se ie puis ou / turnus secombatta amoi / (et) ensi puet estre rela?n?sie / tantost con il ot ce dit / furent leur ie?nt? assemb / lees (et) semistrent aforce / vers les murs (et) uers /

Material

Material:Material object (4)
Watermark:
Condition:Medium to lower quality parchment. In fair condition (sewn tear in vellum flyleaf at the front). Holes on ff. 10, 36. Folio 20 torn. Ink faded on some folios (e.g. ff. 27v-28r, 53r). Resewn ff. 31, 35. Some folios moulded (ff. 50,53v-54r) or stained (f. 39r).

Structure

Collation:

1-88 
Quire structure:Eight quaternions. The vullum guardleaves at the front and back are original and part of the first and final quire. This suggests that the MS is not defect (no folios have been lost at the back) but incomplete.
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Catchword disposition:MSCatchwordDisposition object (9)

Physical description

General illustration:On the verso side of the first leaf is a full-page miniature depicting the construction of a city (Troy). The style of the miniatures is the same as the other in the manuscript, which suggests it is not a later addition. Near identical copy of this image (f. 30r) to portray the destruction of the city (towers falling). Illustration consists of crude pen-drawings filled with blacks, dark greens, reds, blues, pinks. Decoration with silverleaf (e.g. in shields) Two full-page drawings on ff. 1v and 30r. Bas-de page images on ff. 6v-7r (invasion of Troy), 11v: ships and 13r: battle. Mid-page images, mostly battle scenes on ff. 16r, 17r, 21v, 24v (death of Achilles), 27r, 39r (Dido celebrates with Eneas), 42r (Dido’s death, Eneas sails away), 47r (embassy to king Latin), 51r (siege of a cit), 54v, 60v.
General decoration:The manuscript opens with a decorated initial (height: 11 lines), pink on a black field, the eye decorated with floral motifs in red and green). This initial is preceded by a rubricated title, Further subdivision marked by plain initials in red ink (height: 3 lines) preceded by a paragraph title in brown ink.
Evidence of readership:f. 1r: note in the upper margin Majoris Monasterii Congregationis Sti Mauri – 1716 . f. 9v: note in the upper margin mon ?.?a?.?mo. f. 61v: note in the lower margin (photo?). Crosses in the margin throughout.
Foliations description:

Mise en page

Description 1Prickings visible in the outer margins. o 12 o 32 lines
Page sampled25r
LayoutMSLayout object (3)
Page dimensions280x198 (mm)
Justification187x127 (mm)
Columns2
12mm between columns
Lines32
RubricationTituli written in plain brown ink.
Writing above top line?False
Sample page layout:

Hand(s)

Level of Execution:Execution object (3)
ScriptScript object (1)
Folio rangeFrom 1r to 61v
Date?1290 to 1310
Scribe description:
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