General
| Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Sheflmark: | fonds français 12600 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (6) |
| Described by: | dschoenaers, hgrange |
Bindings
| Description: | Brown leather binding on pasteboard. Simple frame gold-tooled on the front and back. Spine in red leather, decorated with gilt fleur-de-lys and two crowned 'C's intertwined. |
| Date : | c. 1800 |
| Title on binding: | Roman / de Troye |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | none |
| Chaining: | none |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (1): | One paper guardleaf at the front. |
| End papers (2): | Two paper guardleaves at the back. |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Li Romans de Troye (explicit) | ?1275 to 1300 | none |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 12600 |
| MS Part Title: | Li Romans de Troye (explicit) |
| Ms Part Folios: | 186 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Good quality vellum. In good condition. Some wear and tear on the first folio. Faces of the miniatures have either been scratched or never filled in. Folio 3r has been restored (lower corner). Crudely stitched f. 128. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1275 to 1300 |
| Notes: | Based on the script and decoration (f. 1r miniature, historiated initial and border decoration; elaborate decoration of pen-decorated initials). Northern textualis with double-compartment 'a' with open upper compartment; both straight and round 's' in final position with a preference for straight 's'. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 1ra to f. 186vb |
| Date(s): | c. 1275 to 1300 |
| Scribe description: | Northern textualis with double-compartment ‘a’, the upper compartment of which is open. The ascenders of ‘b’, ‘h’ and ‘h’ are clubbed. Broad round ‘d’ with short ascender. Tongued ‘e’ in final position. Limb of ‘h’ is round and turns to the left under the baseline. I-longa is used at the end of a minim group, particularly in the case of numerals. Diacritic on ‘i’ in minim group. Use of straight ‘s’ and long ‘s’ in final position. Occasional use of ‘v’ in initial position. Diacritical dot on ‘y’. 3-like ‘z’. Relatively low degree of common abbreviations including crossed tironian note, apostrophe, 2-like ‘com’-abbreviation. Biting of ‘de’ ‘do’ ‘po’ ‘or’. Particularly noteworthy is that the lines of the b-column close with a period at the end of the line. |