Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, nouv. acq. françaises 6579
Li roumans du bon chevalier Tristan (supplied title)
General information
| Folios | 230 |
| Language | Language object (44) |
| Approx. date | ?1275 to 1325 |
| Date notes | 'fin du XIIIe siècle' (Delcourt 2009, 179); 'sec. XIIIex-XIVin' (Cigni 2012, 259). |
| Place(s) of production | Northern France'Nord de la France' (Delcourt 2009, 179); 'Francia del nord (tratti piccardi)' (Cigni 2012, 259). |
| First words of second recto folio | [f. 2ra] ne b(ie)n fait ioseph |
| First words of last recto folio | [f. 230ra] ment m(ou)lt vos doit len tenir por / fox |
| Incipit | [f. 1ra] Apres ce ke iai leu et re- / leu et porueu p(ar) main / tes fois le g(ra)nt liure / en latin : Chelui meisme ki deuise / ap(er)tement lestoire dou saint graal : / Mout me merueil ke aucuns preu / dons ne vient auant por transla / ter dou latín en romans : |
| Explicit | [f. 230rb] Palamedes ce dist / kehedins . vos deues b(ie)n croire el maís / tre kí ale science esprouee . Car chil / |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
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| Condition: | |
Structure
| Collation: | 1-288? 296 |
| Quire structure: | Regular quaternions, except for the final quire (a quaternion that has lost its final two leaves?)? |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (78) |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (4) |
Physical description
| No. of illustrations: | 45 |
| General illustration: | 45 miniatures (height: 6 to 11 lines), with bar borders and gold grounds. According to Patrick De Winter, the artist may have been a collaborator of the 'Maître du Graal', one of the painters of BnF, fr. 95 (Delcourt 2009, 179). |
| General decoration: | Gold champie initials (height: 2 lines) with grounds in blue and pink, and white filigree. |
| Evidence of readership: | On f. 230v, in a 15th-c. hand: 'Ce liure est a mons(eigneur) jaques / Seign(eu)r de lor'. |
| Foliations description: | Modern foliation in black ink in the centre of the upper margin of recto sides. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
| Page sampled | f. 15r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 285x225 (mm) |
| Justification | (mm) |
| Columns | 2mm between columns |
| Lines | 35 |
| Rubrication | none |
| Writing above top line? | False |
| Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (4) |
| Folio range | From 1ra to 230rb |
| Date | ?1275 to 1325 |
| Scribe description: | A very neat book hand with the following traits: two-compartment 'a' (closed upper bow); 'g' with angular lower lobe; round 's' in final position (though some straight); 'v' in initial position (but initial 'u' also present); dotted 'y'. A date in the early 14th c. cannot be excluded. |
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Provenance
| Description | Owned by Jacques de Lor, governor of Rethel c. 1430 (ex-libris f. 230v). | |
| Date | c. 1430 | |
| Place | Place object (1) | |
| Ownership | Person object (94) | |