Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France

Poitiers, Archives départementales de la Vienne, 13

Folios	2
Folio notes:	Bifolium used in the binding of a register (Presidial 1763).
Language	Language object (3)
Approx. date	?1300 to 1399
Date notes	'XIVe siècle', on palaeographical grounds (Vielliard 2009, 396).
Place(s) of production
First words of second recto folio
First words of last recto folio
Incipit	[p. 1a] ??...?? de moi ! A jouster vous convient (Vielliard 2009, 404)
Explicit	[p. 4c] auquel vous tenez vous de nous II qui (Vielliard 2009, 404)

Material:	Material object (4)
Watermark:
Condition:	Fragment from a deluxe manuscript.

General description:	Rubric preceding the miniature.
No. of illustrations:	1
General illustration:	A single miniature (145x75mm, i.e. the width of 2 columns), in poor condition, but perhaps executed in Paris in the first decade of the 14th c. (Vielliard 2009, 397). It depicts three knights (Tristan, Dinadan, and Palamedes?) in a forest, against a gold ground.
General decoration:	One illuminated initial (height: 6 lines), with blue and red flourishing. Paragraphs marked by pen-flourished initials (height: 2 lines), alternating red and blue, with decoration in the opposing colour.
Evidence of readership:
Foliations description:	Numbered 1-4 (though this is not the correct order).