General
| Library: | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana |
| Sheflmark: | Reginense Latino 727 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (1) |
| Described by: | hgrange |
Bindings
| Description: | Plain parchment covering pasteboards. |
| Date : | None |
| Title on binding: | none |
| Cover material: | Material object (4) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (3): | One paper leaf, followed by two parchment leaves taken from a text in Latin on Roman history, copied in Italy. These leaves have been numbered 1-3 in pencil in the lower right of the recto. |
| End papers (3): | Two parchment leaves taken from a book of canon law, copied in Italy, followed by one paper leaf. The parchment leaves are numbered 4 and 5 in pencil in the upper right of the recto. |
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 | , 'The Vatican Manuscripts of the Prose Tristan', Manuscripta, 7 (1963), 18-29 |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , Études sur le 'Tristan' en prose: les sources, les manuscrits, bibliographie critique (Paris: Champion, 1925) |
| Notes | p. 56 |
| Reference | , Le Tristan et le Palamède des manuscrits de Rome et de Florence (Christiania: Dybwad, 1924) |
| Notes | 'Il se rapproche d'abord des manuscrits parisiens 335, 759, puis de 103 à partir du §92' (p. 3). |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Li livre de l'ystoire du Saint Graal et de Tristan (supplied) | ?1300 to 1325 |
MS Part Library: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
General
| Shelfmark: | Reginense Latino 727 |
| MS Part Title: | Li livre de l'ystoire du Saint Graal et de Tristan (supplied) |
| Ms Part Folios: | 394 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Very good parchment, with a few small holes and sewn tears restricted to the margins (e.g. ff. 3, 36, etc.). Folio 1r is particularly worn, but the text remains legible. Though the margins remain capacious, the volume has evidently been trimmed considerably. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1300 to 1325 |
| Notes: | 'Commencement du XIVe siècle' (Langlois 1889, 36). 'Fin du XIIIe siècle' (Løseth 1924, 3; cf. O'Gorman 1963, 18). 'Sec. XIIIex o XIVin' (Cigni 2012, 261). Early 14th c. more likely on palaeographical grounds. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From 1ra to 393rb |
| Date(s): | ?1300 to 1349 |
| Scribe description: | Meticulously copied textualis, displaying the following traits: two-compartment 'a' (closed upper bow); ascenders with some serifs; chiefly round 's' in final position; 't' with a vertical hairline descending from the cross-stroke in final position; chiefly 'v' in initial position; dotted 'y'; 3-shaped 'z'; tironian 'et' with bar. Other abbreviations include nasal bars, '-us', and 'con'/'com'. |
Folios: 1ra - 393rb
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1ra - 40ra
(§Lös. Prologue-Lös. 19) Prologue, and Tristan's ancestry (Common Version)
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40ra - 349ra
(§Lös. 20-Lös. 183) Tristan's adventures in Ireland, Brittany, and the Morrois (Common Version)
Related or similar
- FssToMSRelationshipType object (4): A member of Curtis's family 'e' (loose affiliation), perhaps most closely related to BnF, fr. 334 (Curtis 1985, xxxviii).
Shared by:
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 334
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349ra - 389va
(§Lös. 184a-Lös. 252a) Adventures of Tristan and Marc in Logres, and their reconciliation (Vulgate Version)
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389vb - 393rb
(§Lös. 252a-Lös. 260) Invasion of Cornwall by the Saxons, Tristan's imprisonments, and the lovers' departure for Logres (Vulgate Version)
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