General
| Library: | Universiteitsbibliotheek |
| Sheflmark: | 6 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: None |
| Described by: | dschoenaers |
Bindings
| Description: | Brown leather binding on pasteboard (restored). Rudimentary decoration of arabesques gold-tooled on the spine. No title. |
| Date : | c. 1800 |
| Title on binding: | none |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | none |
| Chaining: | none |
| Edges: | na |
| Front end papers (2): | Two paper guardleaves at the front, which bear the same watermark as the last flyleaves at the end of the manuscript. |
| End papers (3): | Three paper flyleaves at the back. Although the watermarks in all three leaves are all different from the one in the main body (a coat of arms with three fleurs de lys above a letter 't') of the manuscript, the first flyleaf seems to be near-contemporary, given the annotation in a fifteenth century hand. The watermark in this page is a capital letter 'P' with forked descender. The annotation, centered at the bottom of the page reads: 'Quant je fuz nez riens napportay / Je vyn en che monde tous nulz / che je naye riens quant Je moraye / Je naraye gaigniet ne perdu'. Below is a monogram 'J brun J J'. The watermark in the two final flyleaves is the same as the one in the first guardleaves at the front of the manuscript and represents a naked figure on a ball with a rope or scarf above the head. |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| La grant histoire de Tristran (title in rubric, p. 2) | ?1470 to 1480 | Bruges | Jacob II of Gistel, Lord of Dudzele and Straten |
MS Part Library: Universiteitsbibliotheek
General
| Shelfmark: | 6 |
| MS Part Title: | La grant histoire de Tristran (title in rubric, p. 2) |
| Ms Part Folios: | 295 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (14) |
| Watermark: | Coat of arms, crowned, with three fleurs de lys above letter 't'. Height: 85 mm; width: 37 mm; distance between chainlines: 41 mm. Similar watermarks in paper from Cologne, Dorpat, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Freiburg, Baden Baden, dated between 1466 and 1492. The watermark in the first flyleaf at the back of the manuscript is probably near-contemporary, The motif, a letter 'P' with forked descender (height: 54 mm, width: 24 mm, distance between chainlines: 36 mm) was extremely popular and widely used during the 1470s and 1480s with some examples coming from Ghent. |
| Condition: | The manuscript is made up of paper quires. Between pages two and four one vellum folio with painted frontispiece has been inserted. The paper is generally in good condition, except for some pages (e.g. p. 49, p. 72, p. 131, p. 133, p. 265, p. 287, p. 288, p. 289, p. 311, p. 409) of which the edges are ratty. These damaged folios often occur at the beginning or end of the quire. Page 431-432 was damaged because a small part of the page (a few letters of two lines) was stuck to the next page. This part was torn and still sticks onto p. 433. Some folios have become detached from the quires. The binding is in bad condition and the front plate risks to become detached from the spine. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1470 to 1480 |
| Notes: | Based on the frontispiece which has been attributed to Loyset Liédet or one of his followers. (Wijsman 2010, 354). |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From p. 1 to p. 2 |
| Date(s): | c. 1475 |
| Scribe description: | The hand on the vellum folio is not the same as that of the rest of the manuscript. This becomes clear in the form of the letter 'a' which is markedly less angular than that in the rest of the manuscript, and the different use of hairlines. The fusion of round 'd' and 'a' and the use of a tironian note as abbreviation for 'et' are both absent from the rest of the copy. In this hand 'l', 'h' and 'b' generally have looped ascenders, which would justify a classification as cursiva rather than hybrida. |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From p. 5 to p. 589 |
| Date(s): | c. 1475 |
| Scribe description: | In this hand, looped 'l' occurs frequently next to an unlooped variant, which suggests semihybrida rather than cursiva. |
Folios: 2 - 589