Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticano Latino 14740
[Tristan fragments]
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General information
| Folios | 2 |
| Folio notes: | Damaged bifolium conserved in guardbook of fragments taken from bindings. |
| Language | Language object (48) |
| Approx. date | ?1300 to 1399 |
| Date notes | 'XIV secolo' (Radaelli 2004, 187). |
| Place(s) of production | Northern Italy'Mano italiana' (Delcorno Branca 1998, 57); 'ambiente centro (nord) peninsulare' (Radaelli 2004, 188). |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | [f. 48ra] Q uele me meine si a sa tor . / Q ue ge sui serf ele est seigno(r) |
| Explicit | [f. 49vb] James au / tre ior ne uerrai . hui en cest // |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Fairly thick parchment. The bifolium was roughly trimmed for use in binding, with consequent loss of text in the upper part of both folios. Part of the outer column of f. 48 is also missing. Most of the small holes have been repaired. The remaining text is almost entirely legible. |
Structure
| Collation: | 12 |
| Quire structure: | Outer bifolium of a quaternion. |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (21) |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (9) |
Physical description
| General illustration: | |
| General decoration: | Paragraphs marked by initials in red ink (height: 3 lines) with flourishing in blue. |
| Evidence of readership: | |
| Foliations description: | The two folios are stamped 48 and 49 in the lower right corner of the recto. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | Data for justification and number of lines provided for the folio in its present state. The first 8 lines of f. 48ra are in verse and presented as such. |
| Page sampled | f. 49r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 240x182 (mm) |
| Justification | 165x109 (mm) |
| Columns | 212mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (7) (RulingMaterials object (1) ) |
| Lines | 30Line ruling present in Colours object (7) (RulingMaterials object (1) ) |
| Rubrication | none |
| Writing above top line? | False |
| Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (1) |
| Folio range | From 48ra to 49vb |
| Date | ?1300 to 1399 |
| Scribe description: | A regular hand, displaying the following traits: two-compartment 'a' (open upper bow); ascenders with occasional serifs or forks; rücken 'g'; tall 's', trailing 's' and round 's' in final position; 'u' in all positions; 3-shaped 'z'. Abbreviations include tironian 'et' (without bar), 'com', 'qui', 'que', and 'de'. |
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