Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 254
Livre de la destruction de Troyes
General information
| Folios | 171 |
| Folio notes: | The first and last three folios have been left blank. |
| Language | Language object (3) |
| Approx. date | 31-7-1467 |
| Date notes | Jung 1996, 546 and colophon on 168v: 'Finy d'escripre le derrenier jour de juillet iiij.c lxvij. par moy Richart le Grant'. |
| Place(s) of production | Central France |
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| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
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| Explicit | See Jung 1996, 546 for colophon on 168v: 'Finy d'escripre le derrenier jour de juillet iiij.c lxvij. par moy Richart le Grant'. |
Related MS
| RelationshipType object (13) | Manuscript object (105) |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
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Structure
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Physical description
| No. of illustrations: | 107 |
| General illustration: | 83 of the illustrations are in the Troy section; two thirds of the illustrations have the width of two columns. An illustration precedes each of the Heroides (Jung 1996, 548-9). |
| General decoration: | Some folios have elaborate foliate borders. |
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Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
| Page sampled | |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 389x291 (mm) |
| Justification | 273x199 (mm) |
| Columns | 2mm between columns |
| Lines | 48 |
| Rubrication | |
| Writing above top line? | False |
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Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (9) |
| Folio range | From to |
| Date | None |
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Provenance
| Description | 2v has an inscription 'dame Anne de Graville de la succession de feu monseigneur l'admiral vc xviij; Anne's coat of arms figures at a number of points in the manuscript, for example 30v, 42v, 51r. This inscription indicates the book had previously belonged to her father, Louis de Graville (1438-1516). | |
| Date | c. 1516 | |
| Place | Place object (1) | |
| Ownership | Person object (46) | |
| Description | Scribe identities himself as Richart le Grant and dates the completion of his work as copyist. | |
| Date | 31-7-1467 | |
| Place | Place object (1) | |
| Ownership | Person object (67) | |