Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 1628

Library:	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Sheflmark:	fonds français 1628
Information source:	Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (2)
Described by:	dschoenaers, hgrange

Description:	Simple leather binding on wooden boards; simple frame blind-tooled on the front and back. Holes on the front and back may indicate a simple device for fastening the manuscript by means of chords.
Date :	c. 1600
Title on binding:	none
Cover material:	Material object (5)
Board material:	Material object (3)
Fastening:	Holes on the front and back may indicate a simple device for fastening the manuscript by means of chords.
Chaining:	none
Edges:
Front end papers (2):	One paper and one vellum guardleaf on the front. On the verso side of the paper flyleaf a modern hand has noted linguistic characteristics of the copy including 'ole pour elle; celu/cestu pour celui/cestui)'. Below is a note indicating the sources referred to in the text: Robert de Boron and Luce de Gast, indicating that the version contained in this manuscript is posterior to theirs.
End papers (1):	One paper guardleaf at the back of the manuscript.

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

Title	Date	Place	Dedicatee
[Part 1]	?1250 to 1300	Northern France

MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France

MS Part Material:	Material object (4)
Watermark:
Condition:	Lower quality vellum with many large holes (e.g. ff. 49, 107, 123, 141, 151, 183, and 233) and stitches (e.g. ff. 27, 29, 43, 49, and 203), also in the writing space. Instances in which the edge of the skin coincides with the edge of the folio (e.g. ff. 72, 98, 99, 217, and 218). The first and final folios are worn. Between ff. 34 and 35, 50 and 51, 58 and 59, 66 and 67 are large stains (oxidation?) between quires. Lacunae between ff. 10 and 11, 12 and 13, 15 and 16, 101 and 102, 184 and 85 (at least two folios have been torn out); possibly also between ff. 202 and 205.

Date(s):	?1250 to 1300
Notes:	Cigni 2012, 264. This is confirmed by the script (double-compartment 'a' with open upper compartment; straight 's' and round 's' in final position).

Level of Execution:	None
Folio(s):	From to
Date(s):	None
Scribe description:	Multiple hands. Changes of scribe between ff. 107 and 108; between ff. 183 and 184.

Folios: 1ra - 10vb
- 1ra - 10vb
  
  (§Lös. 406-Lös. 412) Tristan's adventures during the Quest (Common Version)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
Folios: 11ra - 12vb
- 11ra - 12vb
  
  (§Lös. 413-Lös. 417) Tristan's adventures during the Quest (Common Version)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
Folios: 13ra - 15vb
- 13ra - 15vb
  
  (§Lös. 418-Lös. 420) Tristan's adventures during the Quest (Common Version)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
Folios: 16ra - 101vb
- 16ra - 22rb
  
  (§Lös. 420-Lös. 421) Tristan's adventures during the Quest (Common Version)
- 22rb - 101vb
  
  (§Lös. 422-Lös. 449) Adventures of Erec and Tristan (Version One (V.I.))
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
Folios: 102ra - 274ra
- 102ra - 232ra
  
  (§Lös. 450-Lös. 493) Adventures of Erec and Tristan (Version One (V.I.))
- 232ra - 239ra
  
  (§Lös. 494-Lös. 495) Adventures of the Grail 1 (Common Version)
- 239ra - 240ra
  
  (§Lös. 516-Lös. 533) Marc's invasion of Logres (Version One (V.I.))
- 240ra - 271rb
  
  (§Lös. 534-Lös. 551) Death of the lovers (Common Version)
- 271rb - 273ra
  
  (§Lös. 568-Lös. 569) Sagremor's return to Camaaloth (Common Version)
- 273ra - 274ra
  
  (§Lös. 570-Lös. 570) Epilogue (Common Version)