Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, fr. F v XV 2
[Part 1]
General information
| Folios | 233 |
| Folio notes: | Several folios lost prior to foliation. |
| Language | Language object (3) |
| Approx. date | ?1350 to 1399 |
| Date notes | 'Date de la fin du XIVe ou du tout début du XVe siècle' (Baumgartner 1975, 74); 'XIVe siècle' (Ménard 1987, IV:12). |
| Place(s) of production | |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | [f. 1ra] EN ceste partie / dist li contes / que quant sa / gremors li des / reez (et) keux li / seneschaux fu / rent descenduz / en lostel |
| Explicit | [f. 233vb] Lors commence a souffrír / mes Palamedes quí bien sa par / cut que il le vouloit deceuoir se / traist vn pou enssus . et dist . Cor- / ssabrín . aton semblant . voi íe b(ie)n / que tu as moult grant mestíer / |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
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Structure
| Collation: | |
| Quire structure: | Mostly quaternions. |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (9) |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (4) |
Physical description
| No. of illustrations: | 1 |
| General illustration: | One miniature at the beginning of the volume on f. 1ra (height: c. 14 lines). |
| General decoration: | Chapters are marked by decorated or historiated initials (height: 8 to 10 lines, mostly 8), sometimes extending to form partial bar borders. Paragraphs begin with champie initials (height: 2 lines). Litterae elongatae. |
| Evidence of readership: | Pen and ink sketch of Tristan in the outer margin of f. 14r. Sporadic marginal notes in a 15th-c. hand, summarising events. There is a nota mark on f. 151rb beside 'AMours fait il engrant doulor / et en grant trauuaill . et en / grant peínne . et en grant mesai- / se me faites mon cors trauueillíer / et user'. |
| Foliations description: | Modern numbering in ink in the upper right corner of recto sides. There is also incomplete modern numbering centred in the lower margin of some recto sides. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
| Page sampled | f. 72r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | (mm) |
| Justification | (mm) |
| Columns | 2mm between columns Column ruling present |
| Lines | 45Line ruling present |
| Rubrication | |
| Writing above top line? | False |
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