Bologna, Biblioteca dell'Archiginnasio, Casini, Cart. XVIII

[Tristan fragments]

General information

Folios	2
Folio notes:	A single bifolium, damaged from use in a binding.
Language	Language object (48)
Approx. date	?1250 to 1350
Date notes	'sec. XIII(ex) o XIV(in)' (Cigni 2012, 259); 'sec. XIII-XIV' (Delcorno Branca 1998, 52).
Place(s) of production	Italy Copied in Italy (Longobardi 1993, 67, on orthographical grounds).
First words of second recto folio
First words of last recto folio
Incipit	[f. 1ra] Oil sens faille fet Kex entre moi / et lui avon hui cevauche ensen- / ble le plus dou jor (Longobardi 1993, 67)
Explicit	[f. 2vb] Dex fet li rois tant / sui trais q(ua)nt T(ristan) le pl(us) / (Longobardi 1993, 75)

Material

Material:	Material object (4)
Watermark:
Condition:	One folio cropped vertically, and the other torn at the base, with consequent loss of text.

Structure

Collation:	12
Quire structure:	A single bifolium.
Quire marks:	MSQuiremarkDisposition object (18)
Catchwords:
Catchword disposition:	MSCatchwordDisposition object (12)

Physical description

General illustration:
General decoration:	Red and blue initials, with guide letters.
Evidence of readership:	On f. 1ra, a marginal note in Latin: 'exclamat hic auctor contra d(e)risores t(ri)stani'. In later hands: 'Savigni anni [...] secund[...]'; and (in pencil): 'Savigno 1548' (Longobardi 1993, 66n).
Foliations description:

Mise en page

Description 1	Longobardi 1993, 66n. The folio width is approximate, since the figure supplied corresponds to the width of the bifolium (470mm).
Page sampled
Layout	MSLayout object (3)
Page dimensions	400x235 (mm)
Justification	240x155 (mm)
Columns	2 14mm between columns
Lines	43
Rubrication
Writing above top line?	False
Sample page layout:

Hand(s)

Level of Execution:	None
Script	None
Folio range	From to
Date	None
Scribe description:
Notes

Provenance

Description	Used to bind documents in 1548.
Date	1548
Place	Place object (10)