Poitiers, Archives départementales de la Vienne, 13
[Tristan fragments]
General information
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: | Material object (4) |
Watermark: | |
Condition: | Fragment from a deluxe manuscript. |
Structure
Collation: | 2 |
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Quire marks: | |
Catchwords: | |
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Physical description
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). |
Mise en page
Description 1 | |
Page sampled | |
Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
Page dimensions | 510x275 (mm) |
Justification | 350x210 (mm) |
Columns | 3mm between columns |
Lines | 50 |
Rubrication | |
Writing above top line? | False |
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