Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 340
L'ystoire et livre de la destruction de Troye la grant (rubric)
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General information
| Folios | 1231 frontend papers |
| Folio notes: | At least one leaf is missing from the end of the codex. |
| Language | Language object (3) |
| Approx. date | ?1450 to 1499 |
| Date notes | '15e s., 2e moitié' (Stutzmann & Tylus 2007, 192). |
| Place(s) of production | Northern France'France (Flandres ?)' (Stutzmann & Tylus 2007, 192). |
| Table of contents | Table of rubrics ff. 1ra-7rb. The rubrics are numbered (1 to 214), but the scribe has occasionally treated these as folio references by mistake. They do not, moreover, always tally with the rubrics as they occur in the text (Jung 1996, 457). |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | [f. 8ra] Ci conmance l'ystoire et livre de la destruction de Troye la grant, tanslatee [sic] de latin en françois. Et premierement conmence le prologue. [A]prés ce que j'ay leu et releu et pourveu par maintes fois es livres qui sont es aumaires de monseigneur saint Denis en France (Jung 1996, 457) |
| Explicit | [f. 123vb] mors en la guerre de Troye les gens estoient tous escilliez (Jung 1996, 457) |
Related MS
| 'Les blancs réservés [du ms. B] se trouvent pratiquement aux endroits où le ms. S a des dessins' (Jung 1996, 457). | |
| RelationshipType object (13) | Manuscript object (464)Manuscript object (459) |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
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Structure
| Collation: | 1-88910108111212-1410 |
| Quire structure: | Eight quaternions (ff. I-63), a quinion, a quaternion, a senion, three quinions. |
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Physical description
| General illustration: | 17 miniatures (height: half-page or taller) were planned, but these were never executed. The blank spaces correspond more or less to the locations of miniatures in St Petersburg, NLR, fr. F v XIV 12. For further details, see Jung 1996, 457-9. |
| General decoration: | On f. 1ra, marking the beginning of the table of rubrics, a large initial C in blue, purple, white and gold, with a coat-of-arms (gules a bend or between six shells or). Red initials (height: 2 lines) with guide letters. |
| Evidence of readership: | On f. 1r, the motto 'Jhesus Maria'. On f. Ir: 'De sainct chamond'. |
| Foliations description: | Medieval foliation (Roman numerals) in red ink, and modern foliation in pencil. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | Source: Stutzmann & Tylus 2007, 192. |
| Page sampled | na |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 340x235 (mm) |
| Justification | 250x135 (mm) |
| Columns | 10mm between columns |
| Lines | 34 |
| Rubrication | Red ink used for headings and to highlight majuscules. |
| Writing above top line? | False |
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Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | None |
| Script | Script object (9) |
| Folio range | From 1ra to 123v |
| Date | ?1450 to 1499 |
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Provenance
| Description | Owned in the late 15th c. by a member of the de Veyré (or de Veré) family (Stutzmann & Tylus 2007, 193). | |
| Date | ?1450 to 1499 | |
| Place | Place object (1) | |