General
| Library: | British Library |
| Sheflmark: | Harley 4389 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (1) |
| Described by: | hgrange |
Bindings
| Description: | Brown leather over pasteboards. Gold-tooling on the spine. |
| Date : | None |
| Title on binding: | PARTIE / DU ROMAN / DE / TRISTAN |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | None |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (1): | 17th-c. parchment legal documents in French. Numbered f. 1. |
| End papers (1): | 17th-c. parchment legal documents in French. Numbered f. 62 (f. 63 is the pastedown). |
Digitisations
| Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.) | |
| Colour? | Colour |
| Completeness | Partial |
| Notes | ff. 5r, 6v, 8v, 15v, 17r, 18v, 19r, 19v, 23v, 26r, 34r, 38r, 51r, 51v, 59v, 60v |
Bibliography
| Reference | , 'Per un riesame della tradizione del Tristan in prosa, con nuove osservazioni sul ms. Paris, BnF, fr. 756-757', in Francesco Benozzo (ed.), Culture, livelli di cultura e ambienti nel Medioevo occidentale. Atti del IX Convegno della Società Italiana di Filologia Romanza (S.I.F.R.), Bologna, 5-8 ottobre 2009 (Rome: Aracne, 2012), pp. 247-78 |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , 'Étude de la décoration filigranée et reconstitution des ateliers: le cas de Gênes à la fin du XIIIe siècle', Arte medievale, 2 (1988), 1, 121-52 |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , Manuscrits enluminés d'origine italienne: tome 2: XIIIe siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1984) |
| Notes | p. 49 |
| Reference | , Études sur le 'Tristan' en prose: les sources, les manuscrits, bibliographie critique (Paris: Champion, 1925) |
| Notes | p. 49 |
| Reference | , Le Tristan et le Palamède des manuscrits français du British Museum: étude critique (Christiania: Dybwad, 1905) |
| Notes | pp. 6-8. Harley 4389 'peut être mis sur une ligne avec 334, malgré quelques divergences' (p. 8). |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Roman du roi Marc fils du roi Felis (supplied title) | ?1275 to 1325 | Genoa-Pisa |
Related MS
MS Part Library: British Library
General
| Shelfmark: | Harley 4389 |
| MS Part Title: | Le Roman du roi Marc fils du roi Felis (supplied title) |
| Ms Part Folios: | 60 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | The parchment is thick and generally of a fair quality, although there are sometimes irregularities, holes (e.g. ff. 22, 31, 41) and stitches (f. 29). The first and last pages are badly worn and the text is consequently difficult to read. There are folds in the parchment, especially in the lower outer corners. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1275 to 1325 |
| Notes: | 'Début du XIVe siècle' (Vinaver 1925, 49); 'last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century' (British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts); 'fine sec. XIII' (Cigni 2012, 259). |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From 2ra to 61vb |
| Date(s): | c. 1300 |
| Scribe description: | Two-compartment 'a' (open upper bow); 'b' with a circular lobe; 'c' with cedilla present; uncial 'd' with a short, almost horizontal shaft; 'e' with tongue; 'h' extends beneath the baseline; both tall and round 's' found in final position; 'u' in initial position; tironian 'et' without bar. Interlinear and marginal corrections. |
Folios: 2ra - 61vb
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2ra - 3vb
(§Lös. 18-Lös. 19) Prologue, and Tristan's ancestry (Common Version)
Related or similar
- FssToMSRelationshipType object (4): Curtis's family 'a' (Curtis 1963, 19).
Shared by:
- Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, α.T.3.11
- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 123
- Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, francese Z XXIII
- Carpentras, Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, 404
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 757
- London, British Library, Additional 23929
- London, British Library, Harley 49
- London, British Library, Harley 4389
- Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, 446 E
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3vb - 60vb
(§Lös. 20-Lös. 41) Tristan's adventures in Ireland, Brittany, and the Morrois (Italian Sequence 1 (It. 1))
Images:
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