General
| Library: | Bibliothèque municipale |
| Sheflmark: | 354 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (2) Segmentation: InformationSource object (2) |
| Described by: |
Bindings
| Description: | Brown leather binding, decorative frames blind-tooled on the front and back. Spine with read leather. |
| Date : | ?1800 to 1900 |
| Title on binding: | |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | None |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (None): | One paper and one vellum guardleaf at the front. On the recto side of the vellum guardleaf are three coats of arms. Three names in a scroll below: 'M. DE GERESME' 'I(E)HAN DV ROUX' 'C. DE BRICHANTEAU'. Jean du Roux, lord of Sigy and Villeneuve in the Île-de-France region married Catherine de Brichanteau in 1498. |
| End papers (2): | Two paper guardleaves at the back. |
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 | , Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320 (London: Harvey Miller, 2013) |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , 'The Illustrated Chrétien Manuscripts and their Artistic Context', 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, 227-322 |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , '‘Mise en page’ in the French Lancelot-Grail: the First 150 Years of the Illustrative Tradition', in Carol Dover (ed.), A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Cambridge: DS Brewer, 2003), 125-144. |
| Notes |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | c. 1280 to 1285 | Douai |
Related MS
| Le Mans, Bibliothèque municipale, 354: |
illustrated by the same artistAccording to the BL Catalogue of Illuminated MSS, the same Douai artist worked in these MSS, but does not include BnF f. fr. 342, listed in Stones 2013, 215. Stones does not mention BL Add. 17443, but includes BL Harley 1629 (Prophecies of Merlin). |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 342: | |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 770: | |
| Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 223: | |
| London, British Library, Additional 17443: | |
| Le Mans, Bibliothèque municipale, 354: |
Similar version of project text(s)In this group of four MSS, the 'Estoire' has been interpolated with excerpts taken from the prose 'Joseph d'Arimathie'. |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 770: | |
| Chantilly, Musée Condé, 643: | |
| Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, fr. F v XV 5: |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque municipale
General
| Shelfmark: | 354 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 195 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Good quality vellum, generally in good condition. Stitch in the written space (f. 84). Folios 106r, 124vb ink faded. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | c. 1280 to 1285 |
| Notes: | Date suggested by the Lancelot-Graal project. Stones 2013 suggests c. 1285. Arthurian Fiction has 1275 to 1295. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 1ra to f. 207vb |
| Date(s): | c. 1280 to 1285 |
| Scribe description: | Northern textualis with double compartment 'a' with open upper compartment, uncial 'd' with very short ascender, 'e' with tongue, diacritic on 'i' in minim group, 'i'-longa used in final position, put also in mid-word position, descender of 'q' curves to the left, occasionally majuscule 'r' at the end of the line, straight 's' in final position, also trailing 's' in final position, occassionally round 's' at the end of the line, vertical stroke of 't' does not extend above the headstroke, headstroke of 't' extended at the end of the line. 'w' for 'uu', dotted 'y'. Abbreviations include crossed tironian note, superscript vowels, nasal bar, 'com'-abbreviation. Fusion of 'p' and 'o', 'o' and round 'r'. 'st'-ligature. Word-separation not marked. Punctuation: punctus. Litterae elongatae, Especially at the bottom of the page, decorated with leaves, flowers and/or zig-zag pattern. |