General
| Library: | British Library |
| Sheflmark: | Additional 12029 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (1) |
| Described by: | sgaunt |
Bindings
| Description: | Very fine dark green leather binding by Charles Hering with gold and natural tooling. Inside the front cover there is an embossed ex libris for the library of Samuel Butler, so the binding necessarily predates his death. |
| Date : | ?1800 to 1839 |
| Title on binding: | |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (3): | The recto of the last front end paper has a 12-line pencil note in a 19th-c. hand discussing the relations between this MS and BL Egerton 912, BL Royal 17 F 11 and BL Royal 20 D 1. |
| End papers (2): |
Bibliography
| Reference | , Die Illustrationszyklen zur 'Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César' (1250-1400) (Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 1989) |
| Notes | pp. 258-61 |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Les hystoires des roumains (title from incipit) | ?1340 to 1350 | Paris |
MS Part Library: British Library
General
| Shelfmark: | Additional 12029 |
| MS Part Title: | Les hystoires des roumains (title from incipit) |
| Ms Part Folios: | 188 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | The MS is in good condition throughout. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1340 to 1350 |
| Notes: | Jung 1996, 342 |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (3) |
| Folio(s): | From 1 to 188 |
| Date(s): | ?1340 to 1350 |
| Scribe description: | The hand is extremely legible with very few abbreviations and clearly distinguished 'u', 'n' and 'm', 's' and 'f', 'c' and 't'. The long 's' has a notable forward curl at the top and is not used in final position. The scribe frequently uses the letter 'y' in final position in a word. |
Folios: 1 - 188
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1r - 4v
(§3-22) Orient I (Common redaction)
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4v - 19r
(§23-125) Thebes (Common redaction)
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19v - 22v
(§126-147) Greeks and Amazons (Common redaction)
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22v - 37v
(§1-71) Troy (Common redaction)
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37v - 54r
(§1-57) Eneas (Common redaction)
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54r - 67v
(§00-00) Rome I (Common redaction)
Includes:
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67v - 83r
(§00-00) Orient II (Common redaction)
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83r - 108r
(§00-00) Alexander (Common redaction)
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108r - 188r
(§00-00) Rome II (Common redaction)
Includes:
- On the importance of money (Prose) from folio 119 to 119,
- On the vanity of grief (Prose) from folio 121r to 121r,
- One should fear death when one has not lived well (Prose) from folio 127v to 127v
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (12) 131v
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