Exeter, Cathedral Library, D and C 3529
[Tristan fragments]
General information
| Folios | 4 |
| Folio notes: | 4 folios, with 1 folio missing between ff. 1 and 2, and between ff. 3 and 4. |
| Language | Language object (3) |
| Approx. date | ?1300 to 1349 |
| Date notes | 'Il a été copié sans doute vers le début du XIVe siècle' (Bennett 1974, 85). |
| Place(s) of production | Northern FranceBennett suggests the copyist may have deliberately excised Picard traits found in his exemplum (1974, 87n). |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | [f. 1ra] autres . Cele le fait de faible fort, et de coart le fait hardi (Bennett 1974, 94) |
| Explicit | [f. 4vb] Il entent bien tot clerement que d'une part crient li un vers le chief (Bennett 1974, 104) |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
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Structure
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Physical description
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Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
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| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 280x185 (mm) |
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| Columns | 2mm between columns |
| Lines | 35 |
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| Writing above top line? | False |
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Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (4) |
| Folio range | From 1ra to 4vb |
| Date | ?1300 to 1399 |
| Scribe description: | Extensive punctuation and 'i' with accents rather than dots suggests pre-1400 (Bennett 1974, 85). |
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Provenance
| Description | The manuscript with which the Tristan fragment is bound was in the library of St Augustine's, Canterbury. The binding is c. 1500, suggesting that 'le "Tristan" appartenait, lui aussi, au même établissement' (Bennett 1974, 85-6). | |
| Date | ?1400 to 1497 | |
| Place | Place object (182) | |