Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 1434

Library:	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Sheflmark:	fonds français 1434
Information source:	Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (2)
Described by:	dschoenaers, hgrange

Description:	Brown sheepskin binding on pasteboard. Simple frame with fleurs-de-lys gold-tooled on the front and back. Gold-tooled on the spine two 'L''s intertwined, crowned and fleur-de-Lys.
Date :	c. 1800
Title on binding:	Partie du roman de Tristan
Cover material:	Material object (10)
Board material:	Material object (9)
Fastening:	none
Chaining:	none
Edges:
Front end papers (2):	Two paper guardleaves at the front, the first of which has become detached. On these guardleaves a modern hand has noted a summary of the manuscript's contents
End papers (2):	Two paper guardleaves at the end.

Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.)
Colour?	Black and White
Completeness	Full
Notes

Reference	Zanni, Raffaella, 'Il Tristan en prose tra Francia e Italia: note sui manoscritti Paris, BnF fr. 94 e BnF fr. 1434', in Ines Ravasini and Isabella Tomassetti (eds), "Pueden alzarse las gentiles palabras" per Emma Scoles (Rome: Bagatto Libri, 2013), pp. 453-75
Notes
Reference	Vinaver, Eugène, Études sur le 'Tristan' en prose: les sources, les manuscrits, bibliographie critique (Paris: Champion, 1925)
Notes	pp. 44-5

Title	Date	Place	Dedicatee
[Part 1]	?1275 to 1300		none

Folios: 1ra - 32vb
- 1ra - 32vb
  
  (§Lös. 313-Lös. 329) Invasion of Cornwall by the Saxons, Tristan's imprisonments, and the lovers' departure for Logres (Version One (V.I.))
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
Folios: 33ra - 156vb
- 33ra - 55vb
  
  (§Lös. 330-Lös. 337) Invasion of Cornwall by the Saxons, Tristan's imprisonments, and the lovers' departure for Logres (Version One (V.I.))
- 55vb - 60vb
  
  (§Lös. 338-Lös. 346) Tournament of Louvezerp (Common Version)
- Termination object (10): text inserted after this segment
- 61ra - 156vb
  
  (§Lös. 344-Lös. 381) Tournament of Louvezerp (Common Version)

MS Part Material:	Material object (4)
Watermark:
Condition:	At least one quire has been lost at the beginning of the manuscript (older foliation in the lower margin starts at 11; another in the upper right corner at 12). The folios of the first quire are severely damaged in the outer margin/column. This is particularly true for folios 1 to 6. The vellum is of medium to lower quality with disruptive holes (e.g. f. 62) and stitches (e.g. f. 134) in the writing space. Folio 85 is torn.

Date(s):	?1275 to 1300
Notes:	Based on the script. 'sec. XIII 2/2' (Cigni 2012, 262).

MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France