Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barberiniano Latino 3953
[Part 1]
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General information
| Folios | 131 frontend papers |
| Folio notes: | The front flyleaf gives dates for Easter, the earliest for the year 1336. |
| Language | Language object (64) |
| Approx. date | ?1275 to 1335 |
| Date notes | While other parts of this volume were copied and compiled between 1325 and 1335, Part 1 is likely earlier, perhaps dating to the end of the 13th c. (Delcorno Branca 1980, 214). |
| Place(s) of production | TrevisoNo doubt compiled by Nicolò dei Rossi in or near Treviso before 1335 (Kleinhenz 2011, 82). |
| First words of second recto folio | [p. 3a] ?? ... ?? che / ?? ... ?? mora / |
| First words of last recto folio | [p. 25a] Amis Tristan chen tristece maues mís |
| Incipit | [p. 1a] POstq(uam) Jason doctus fuit a medea |
| Explicit | [p. 26a] a cuí plas maíz donar cha cel ch(e) / pren. // |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Average parchment. Pages 1-3 and 14 are particularly worn. The upper part of the inner column of pp. 3-4 is missing and has been repaired. |
Structure
| Collation: | 18 25 |
| Quire structure: | 2 quaternions, of which the second wants the sixth, seventh and eighth folios. |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (21) |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (9) |
Physical description
| General illustration: | |
| General decoration: | The 'Historia Troiana' opens with a red initial (height: 5 lines) with pen-flourishing in blue. Subsequent initials are in a similar style, but chiefly 3 lines in height. The initial on p. 2a is the sole instance of a blue initial with red flourishing. Majuscules are highlighted with red ink. |
| Evidence of readership: | |
| Foliations description: | The leaves were paginated in the 16th c. in black ink (upper outer corner). |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
| Page sampled | p. 25 |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 226x168 (mm) |
| Justification | 179x134 (mm) |
| Columns | 28mm between columns Column ruling present |
| Lines | 48Line ruling present |
| Rubrication | none |
| Writing above top line? | False |
| Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (10) |
| Folio range | From p. 1a to p. 26a |
| Date | ?1275 to 1335 |
| Scribe description: | A small, regular hand, which makes use of single-compartment 'a', both 'c' caudata and 3-shaped 'z', 8-shaped 'g', round 's' in final position (slightly larger than other small letters), 'u' in all positions, and 'y' without a dot. For the 'Prose Tristan' fragment the few abbreviations that are employed are limited to the end of the line. Tironian 'et' lacks a horizontal bar. |
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