London, British Library, Lansdowne 229

[Troie fragment]

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	Italy Hand '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	2 15mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (6) (RulingMaterials object (5) )
Lines	42 Line 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