Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 1420
[Troie extracts]
General information
| Folios | 2 |
| Folio notes: | The final two folios of a volume that otherwise contains Chrétien's 'Erec' and 'Cligès'. The second (f. 59) is the width of a single column. |
| Language | Language object (47) |
| Approx. date | ?1225 to 1275 |
| Date notes | 'milieu du XIIIe siècle' (Jung 1996, 323). Perhaps the later part of this period (on palaeographical grounds). |
| Place(s) of production | England'l'ouvrage d'un copiste anglo-normand' (Lodge 1980, 64). |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | [f. 58ra] A dunt i auínt achilles / E si sachez q(ue) pesant fes / C harga a ceus de mantenant / L a suit un fereíz si grant / Q(ue) n ne parot ja mes de tel / D e si crual ne de si mortel |
| Explicit | [f. 59r] D es riches dus ne des meígnes / D es ammíraus ne des cheueteignes / D unt il ocist mes de treis cenz / J us (est) ci fait remembrenz . |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Scruffy appearance, with three holes affecting f. 58. |
Structure
| Collation: | |
| Quire structure: | Single bifolium. |
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Physical description
| General illustration: | none |
| General decoration: | |
| Evidence of readership: | |
| Foliations description: | Numbered 58 and 59 in ink in the upper right corner of recto sides, in the same hand that foliated the rest of the manuscript. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | Source: Jung 1996, 323. |
| Page sampled | f. 58r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (4) |
| Page dimensions | 280x185 (mm) |
| Justification | 235x140 (mm) |
| Columns | 2mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Lines | 46Line ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Rubrication | |
| Writing above top line? | False |
| Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (5) |
| Script | Script object (4) |
| Folio range | From 58ra to 59r |
| Date | ?1225 to 1275 |
| Scribe description: | Copied in an angular, Anglo-Norman hand of the 13th c. It features two-compartment 'a' (with barely developed upper bow); 'i' ticks to avoid confusion with other minims; 'r' occasionally descending below the baseline; predominantly straight 's', but trailing 's' also occurs at the end of the line; both 'u' and 'v' in initial position; 2-shaped 'z' with a horizontal bar. Abbreviations include crossed tironian 'et' and 'est'. |
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