Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 343
Lancelot du lac (supplied title)
General information
| Folios | 112 |
| Language | Language object (48) |
| Approx. date | ?1380 to 1390 |
| Date notes | 'vers 1380-1385' (Avril & Gousset 2005, III:65). |
| Place(s) of production | Milan, Pavia'Pavie ou Milan' (Avril & Gousset 2005, III:65). |
| First words of second recto folio | [f. 2ra] pas . Lors dit lancelot alabaesse . Dame / |
| First words of last recto folio | [f. 112ra] faussete que oncques |
| Incipit | [f. 1ra] OR dit li / Contes / qe la ue / ille de la / penco / st . |
| Explicit | [f. 112vb] car apres ne porroie nul ior si aei / se com ie fais orendroit . Certes fet ele [...] // |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | na |
| Condition: | |
Structure
| Collation: | 1-148 |
| Quire structure: | Fourteen regular quaternions. There are, however, lacunae between ff. 32 and 33, and ff. 104 and 105. |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (21) |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (9) |
Physical description
| No. of illustrations: | 122 |
| General illustration: | 122 illustrations, mostly across both columns and mostly incomplete (chiefly ink outline drawings from f. 66r), the work of at least four artists. See Avril & Gousset 2005, 65-71 for full description. |
| General decoration: | One historiated initial (height: 15 lines) on f. 1ra (outline only). Completed decorated initials (height: 8 or 11 lines) are present on ff. 9va, 13va, 16rb; a handful were sketched out; but in most cases a space has been left. Flourished initials (height: 3 lines), alternating red (decorated violet) and blue (decorated red) were executed on quires 2 and 3 only (ff. 9r-24v). |
| Evidence of readership: | |
| Foliations description: | Modern black ink in the upper right corner of recto sides. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | Dimensions from Avril & Gousset 2005, 65. |
| Page sampled | |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 392x274 (mm) |
| Justification | (mm) |
| Columns | 2mm between columns |
| Lines | 55 |
| Rubrication | |
| Writing above top line? | False |
| Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (10) |
| Folio range | From 1ra to 112vb |
| Date | ?1350 to 1399 |
| Scribe description: | A neat and regular semitextualis, with the following traits: single-compartment 'a'; 'd' with a short, near horizontal shaft; rücken 'g'; round or trailing 's' in final position; majuscule 'S' with zigzag join of upper and lower parts; absence of 'v'; uncrossed tironian 'et'. |
| Notes | |
Provenance
| Description | Monogram of Galeazzo Maria Sforza on f. 113v. | |
| Date | ?1444 to 1476 | |
| Place | Place object (1) | |
| Ownership | Person object (88) | |
| Description | Seized at Pavia by the French and taken to the royal library at Blois (f. 112v). | |
| Date | c. 1500 | |
| Place | Place object (184) | |
| Ownership | Person object (7) | |
| Description | Likely produced for Bernabò Visconti (died 1385) (Aniel et al. 2005, III:71). | |
| Date | c. 1385 | |
| Place | Place object (1) | |
| Ownership | Person object (87) | |