Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 2542
Li estoires de Tristran que on apele le Bret (incipit)
General information
| Folios | 500 |
| Language | Language object (44) |
| Approx. date | c. 1300 |
| Date notes | 'des environs de 1300' (Ménard 1987, I:19); 'sec. XIVin' (Cigni 2012, 255). |
| Place(s) of production | Arras, Picardy'écrit dans la Picardie du Sud ou du Sud-Ouest', on linguistic grounds (Ménard 1987, I:21). For more detailed analysis of the scripta, see pp. 32-42. |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | [f. 1ra] Chi conmence li estoires de Tristran que on apele le Bret ke mesire Elys de Borron et mesire Luces du Gant firent. Pour ce ke je voi que nus ne veut emprendre a translater de latin en roumans l'estoire de Tristran ki fu li mieudres chevaliers ki onques fust en le Grande Bretaingne devant le roi Artu ne aprés, fors Galehaut ki fu fiex Lanselot du Lac, je Elys de Borron l'enprent a translater si com je sai et voel conmenchier en tel maniere. (Ménard 1987, I:19) |
| Explicit | [f. 499vc] Or est la Table Reonde apouvrie durement de preudommes, puis que Palamidés est mors, et li boins cevaliers (Ménard 1987, IX:279) |
Related MS
| RelationshipType object (2) | Manuscript object (373)Manuscript object (331) |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
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Structure
| Collation: | |
| Quire structure: | 41 senions and a quaternion (Ménard 1987, I:19). |
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Physical description
| No. of illustrations: | 1 |
| General illustration: | One large miniature with four panels on f. 1r. |
| General decoration: | 197 historiated initials (height: 7 lines), with marginal borders supporting zoomorphic and fantastical figures. |
| Evidence of readership: | 16th-c. notes in German on ff. 113v, 115r, and 230r. |
| Foliations description: | Modern numbering. There is a f. 311 bis. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | Dimensions from Pächt and Thoss 1974, 20. |
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| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 440x325 (mm) |
| Justification | 323x225 (mm) |
| Columns | 3mm between columns |
| Lines | 60 |
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| Writing above top line? | False |
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Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | None |
| Script | Script object (4) |
| Folio range | From 1ra to 499vc |
| Date | c. 1300 |
| Scribe description: | |
| Notes | Several hands. |