General
| Library: | British Library |
| Sheflmark: | Additional 30863 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (1) |
| Described by: | jstoll, hgrange |
Bindings
| Description: | Green leather over pasteboards, with blind-tooled fleur-de-lys pattern and gold-tooled titles. |
| Date : | None |
| Title on binding: | LE / ROMAN / DE / TROIE |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | plain |
| Front end papers (1): | |
| End papers (1): |
Digitisations
| Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.) | |
| Colour? | Colour |
| Completeness | Partial |
| Notes | f. 14v |
Bibliography
| Reference | La Légende de Troie en France au moyen âge (Basel; Tubingen: Francke Verlag, 1996) |
| Notes | pp. 100-10 |
| Reference | , Codex and Context: Reading Old French Verse Narrative in Manuscript, 2 vols (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002) |
| Notes | |
| Reference | 'Some Champenois Vernacular Manuscripts and the Manerius Style of Illumination', in Keith Busby, Terry Nixon, Alison Stones, and Lori Walters (eds), Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes: The Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes, 2 vols (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993), vol. 1, pp. 195-226 |
| Notes | Identifies Add. 30863 as a member of the Manerius group. |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | ?1200 to 1210 | Champagne | none |
MS Part Library: British Library
General
| Shelfmark: | Additional 30863 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 132 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Low-grade parchment, thick, sometimes rather dark in appearance, and with numerous stitched or unstithced holes (e.g. f. 19) and holes within the ruled area (e.g. f. 33). The lower margins of ff. 15, and 101-2 have been cut out. f. 1r is particularly worn, and the sides of leaves have been repaired with paper, especially towards the beginning of the codex. Considerable creasing due to the tightness of the binding. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1200 to 1210 |
| Notes: | 'ca. 1200-1210' (Stirnemann 1993, 205). |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From 1ra to 132vb |
| Date(s): | ?1200 to 1250 |
| Scribe description: | A small, angular textualis of the early 13th c., with two-compartment 'a' (open upper bow), ascenders with serifs, 'j' used in final position, round 'r' exclusively after 'o', only very occasional round 's' in final position; 'u' in initial position; 2-shaped 'z'. Tironian 'et' is uncrossed. |
Folios: 1ra - 132vb
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1ra - 132vb
(§v. 1455-v. 27342) Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Roman de Troie (N/A)
Includes:
Related or similar
- The text is close to Arsenal 3340 (dated 1237). (BL website catalogue)
Shared by:
- Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 3340
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