General
| Library: | Kongelige Bibliotek |
| Sheflmark: | Thott 1087 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (1) |
| Described by: | dschoenaers |
Bindings
| Description: | Brown leather binding on pasteboard. Foucault arms gold-tooled on the front and back. Spine gold-tooled with arabesques and title. |
| Date : | c. 1700 |
| Title on binding: | Mort du / roi / Artus . MS // |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (2): | Pastedown at the front from the same account as the vellum flyleaf. Two paper flyleaves at the front. Pasted on the verso of the first flyleaf is the ex-libris of Nicolas Joseph Foucault, 'Comitis Consistoriani' (1643-1721). Written on the verso is a note in Latin referring to the text and its author, designating the contents as 'heroical fictions'. |
| End papers (1): | One vellum and one paper flyleaf at the back. The vellum endleaf is a fragment of an account in French, referring to 1505. |
Bibliography
| Reference | La Mort du roi Arthur, ed. Hult, David (Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 2009) |
| Notes | |
| 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 |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| liber mortis regis artu(ri) (colophon) | c. 1220 to 1230 | Northern France |
MS Part Library: Kongelige Bibliotek
General
| Shelfmark: | Thott 1087 |
| MS Part Title: | liber mortis regis artu(ri) (colophon) |
| Ms Part Folios: | 108 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Lower grade vellum, many holes, stitches and instances where the folio has been cut near the edges of the skin . First and last pages are worn. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | c. 1220 to 1230 |
| Notes: | Date proposed by the Lancelot-Graal Project. This is confirmed by the layout (written above top line) and partially also the script (double-compartment 'a', the upper compartment of which is open, straight 's' in final position, uncrossed tironian note). According to Arthurian Fiction, dated to the fifteenth century. JONAS gives thirteenth or fourteenth century. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 1ra to f. 108vb |
| Date(s): | None |
| Scribe description: | (Southern?) Littera textualis, with double-compartment 'a', the upper compartment of which is open, half-uncial 'd', limb of 'h' descends below the baseline and curves to the left; 'i'-longa in initial position; no diacritic on 'i'; word-separation not indicated; minims of 'm', 'n', and 'f' long 's' end flat on the baseline (praescissus); straight 's' in final position, except at the end of the line; vertical stroke of 't' barely protrudes above the headstroke; no use of 'v'; 3-like 'z' extending below the baseline. Punctuation includes punctus. Abbreviations include nasal mark, 'us'-abbreviation, 'com' abbreviations, apostrophe and uncrossed tironian 'et'. |
Folios: f.1ra - f. 108vb
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f. 1ra - f. 103vb
(§00-00) Mort le roi Artu (N/A)
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f. 104ra - f. 108vb
(§00-00) Occitan song book Kp (N/A)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
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