General
| Library: | Bodleian Library |
| Sheflmark: | Douce 189 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (1) |
| Described by: | hgrange |
Bindings
| Description: | Mid-brown leather over pasteboards, with gold-tooling. |
| Date : | None |
| Title on binding: | ROMANS / DE LA / MORT DE ARTUS // ET DE LA / MORT DE TRISTAN // MS. DU / 13. SIECLE |
| Cover material: | None |
| Board material: | None |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (4): | A paper note pasted onto f.i v observes that the MS was given to the 'Prince de Soubise' by the 'Princesse de Rohan' on February 14, 1774. |
| End papers (3): |
Bibliography
| Reference | , 'The Death of Tristan, from Douce MS 189', PMLA, 43, (1928), 343-83 |
| Notes | An edition of the fragment of the Prose Tristan in this MS. |
| Reference | , 'Some New Arthurian Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library', The Modern Language Review, 22 (1927), 87-90 |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , Le 'Tristan en prose': essai d'interprétation d'un roman médiéval (Geneva: Droz, 1975) |
| Notes | |
| Reference | La Mort le roi Artu: roman du XIIIe siècle, ed. Frappier, Jean (Paris: Droz, 1936) |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , 'Quelques manuscrits méconnus du Roman de Tristan en prose', Romania, 56 (1930), 277-81 |
| Notes |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | ?1275 to 1325 | Genoa, Northern Italy | none |
MS Part Library: Bodleian Library
General
| Shelfmark: | Douce 189 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 78 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Mediocre parchment, often dark in appearance, with several holes and sewn tears (including within the text block). The text is at times illegible due to humidity damage and rubbing of the ink. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1275 to 1325 |
| Notes: | 'Fourteenth century' (Murrell 1927, 87; cf. Murrell 1930, 56; Curtis 1963, 1:14; Baumgartner 1975, 18); 'début du XlVe s.' (Frappier 1936, xxix); 'late 13th cent.' (Allaire and Psaki 2002, 1:19), 'sec. XIIIex' (Cigni 2009, 265). The late 13th c. is more likely, on palaeographical grounds. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From 1ra to 78vb |
| Date(s): | ?1275 to 1300 |
| Scribe description: | Two-compartment 'a' (open upper bow); uncial 'd' with short, almost horizontal shaft; 'e' sometimes with tongue; figure-8 'g'; tall 's' in all positions. Use of tironian 'et' without bar. |
Folios: 1ra - 78vb
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1ra - 64vb
(§na-na) Mort le roi Artu (N/A)
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65ra - 78vb
(§Lös. 534-Lös. 570) Death of the lovers, Sagremor's return to Camaaloth, and epilogue (Italian Sequence 3 (It. 3))
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