Rome, Biblioteca Angelica, 2313
[Tristan fragments]
General information
| Folios | 2 |
| Folio notes: | A single bifolium, damaged through use in binding. |
| Language | Language object (48) |
| Approx. date | ?1300 to 1349 |
| Date notes | 'sec. XIVin?' (Cigni 2012, 256). Usage of 'v' and round 's' might suggest a date nearer the middle of the century. |
| Place(s) of production | ItalyOn orthographical and palaeographical grounds. |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | [f. 1ra] acelí qui au roí auoit parle / |
| Explicit | [f. 2vb] íj. damoiselles firent sus le ch(eualie)r // |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Fairly good quality parchment, with stains and small holes from use in a binding. Some text on f. 2v is consequently illegible. |
Structure
| Collation: | 2 |
| Quire structure: | Two leaves of a bifolium that were separated and later re-attached. They probably once formed the 3rd and 6th leaves of a quaternion. |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (70) |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (12) |
Physical description
| General illustration: | |
| General decoration: | The chapter beginning f. 2vb is marked by a large (unfinished) initial in blue (height: 8 lines). Paragraphs open with plain initials in blue or red (height: 2 lines). Guide letters are visible. |
| Evidence of readership: | |
| Foliations description: | Modern foliation in pencil in the upper right corner of recto sides. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
| Page sampled | f. 2r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 288x208 (mm) |
| Justification | 191x123 (mm) |
| Columns | 211mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (5) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Lines | 35Line ruling present in Colours object (5) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| 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 1ra to 2vb |
| Date | ?1300 to 1375 |
| Scribe description: | Features include: two-compartment 'a' (though upper bow often barely visible), short ascenders and descenders, use of both 'c' caudata and 3-shaped 'z', both tall and round 's' in final position, 'v' consistently used in initial position, 'y' without dot. The 'con' abbreviation appears with a very short tail. Tironian 'et' has a diagonal and wavy cross-stroke. |
| Notes | |