London, British Library, Lansdowne 229
[Troie fragment]
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General information
| Folios | 1 |
| Folio notes: | Single folio used as a flyleaf in a paper volume compiled by William Camden in 1573. |
| Language | Language object (48) |
| Approx. date | ?1275 to 1325 |
| Date notes | 'XIVth cent.' (Ward 1883, I:61; cf. Woledge 1954, 131); 'fin du XIIIe siècle' (Vielliard 1988, 508; cf. Jung 1996, 499). |
| Place(s) of production | ItalyHand 'de type italien' (Vielliard 1988, 508; cf. Jung 1996, 499). |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | [f. 164ra] ameruoilles furent bele gent : // Parmi le chastel sen passerent (et) regar- / derent sus (et) íus . riche gent í uírent / assez . (et) moult se prístrent garde enta- / píssaíge sauoir se il peussent de riens / greuer ceus dou chastel . |
| Explicit | [f. 164vb] QUant Paris uínt au temple si ues / tuz (et) si atornez coume nos auons / deuant dit . lí murmures dou pueple / lieue (et) la nouele uíent amadame he- / layne quí estoit hautement assise/ |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | na |
| Condition: | Good quality parchment. The ink has rubbed in places on the recto side, but most of the text remains legible. |
Structure
| Collation: | 1 |
| Quire structure: | Singleton. |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (18) |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (12) |
Physical description
| General illustration: | none |
| General decoration: | Paragraphs are marked by pen-flourished initials (height: 2 lines), alternating red and blue (with decoration in the opposing colour). The initials are partly within the text column and partly in the margin. |
| Evidence of readership: | In the margin of f. 164rb: 'heleyne'. |
| Foliations description: | Numbered 164 in black ink in the upper right corner of the recto, some time after the rest of the MS was foliated. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
| Page sampled | f. 164r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 301x216 (mm) |
| Justification | 213x164 (mm) |
| Columns | 215mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (6) (RulingMaterials object (5) ) |
| Lines | 42Line ruling present in Colours object (6) (RulingMaterials object (5) ) |
| Rubrication | none |
| Writing above top line? | False |
| Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (1) |
| Folio range | From 164ra to 164vb |
| Date | ?1275 to 1325 |
| Scribe description: | A meticulously copied rotunda in black ink, with the following traits: single-compartment 'a' (open upper bow); 'h' with a limb barely descending below the baseline; 'i' often ticked; round 'r' after bows; straight and round 's' in final position; 'u' in initial position; dotted 'y' in proper nouns only; 3-shaped 'z'. Scarce abbreviations appear only at the end of lines. Tironian 'et' is uncrossed. |
| Notes | |