Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticano Latino 14740
[Mort Artu fragments]
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General information
| Folios | 2 |
| Folio notes: | Single bifolium damaged through use in binding. |
| Language | Language object (3) |
| Approx. date | ?1300 to 1399 |
| Date notes | 'XIVe siècle' (Delcorno Branca 2010, 169n). |
| Place(s) of production | Northern Italy'Le fragment de la Mort Artu provient [...] du Piémont' (Delcorno Branca 2010, 170n). |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | [f. 59ra] de quil il estoit . Et lancelot li dit |
| Explicit | [f. 69vb] ce est messíre lancelot du lac / lí meudres cheualíers du monde . Si / le me díst messíre gauuaín lí mes le |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Water damage has rendered sections of ff. 59r and 60v illegible. |
Structure
| Collation: | 12 |
| Quire structure: | A single bifolium, once perhaps containing six intervening leaves. The lack of a catchword would suggest that it was not the external bifolium of the gathering. |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (18) |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (12) |
Physical description
| General illustration: | |
| General decoration: | One illuminated initial (height: 5 lines) on f. 60vb: a red letter within a blue frame against a gold ground, with white filigree, vine infill, and tendrils extending into the intercolumnar space. Paragraphs are marked by pen-flourished initials (height: 2 lines), alternating blue and red (with decoration in the opposing colour). |
| Evidence of readership: | Folio 60rb: the name of 'Gaheries' has been erased and that of 'hector leur cousin' inserted in the margin. |
| Foliations description: | Stamped 59 and 60 in the lower corner of recto sides. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
| Page sampled | f. 60r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 287x217 (mm) |
| Justification | 204x158 (mm) |
| Columns | 215mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (6) (RulingMaterials object (5) ) |
| Lines | 40Line ruling present in Colours object (6) (RulingMaterials object (5) ) |
| 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 59ra to 60vb |
| Date | ?1300 to 1399 |
| Scribe description: | A small and regular textualis, whose features include: two-compartment 'a' (closed upper bow); ascenders with some serifs; 'd' with a very short, straight shaft; mostly round 's' in final position; 't' with a vertical hairline descending from the cross bar; mostly 'u' (but occasionally 'v') in initial position; tironian 'et' with bar. |
| Notes | |