General
| Library: | Trinity College |
| Sheflmark: | O.4.26 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (1) |
| Described by: | nmorato |
Bindings
| Description: | Modern binding in grey cardboard. On the spine: O / 4 / 26 (the shelfmark) |
| Date : | None |
| Title on binding: | |
| Cover material: | Material object (1) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (2): | two endpapers in paper, left blank. |
| End papers (2): | two endpapers in paper, left blank. |
Bibliography
| Reference | La Légende de Troie en France au moyen âge (Basel; Tubingen: Francke Verlag, 1996) |
| Notes | pp. 442, 455 (about Prose 1), 459-464 (detailed description of the MS), 508 (list of the french versions of the Heroides included in the MS), image n. 8. |
| Reference | , Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900) |
| Notes | vol. III, pp. 276-77. |
| Reference | , 'A case of mistaken identity: Still another Trojan narrative in Old French prose', Medium Aevum, 53 (1984), 59-72 |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters. III. Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken (London: Warburg Institute, 1953) |
| Notes | pp. 430-1 and images 85 to 90. |
| Reference | Les Epistres des dames de Grèce. Une version médiévale en prose française des 'Héroïdes' d'Ovide, ed. Barbieri, Luca (Paris: Champion, 2007) |
| Notes | p. 10 (description of the MS). |
| Reference | , Le 'Epistole delle dame di Grecia' nel 'Roman de Troie' in prosa. La prima traduzione francese delle Eroidi di Ovidio (Tübingen; Basel: Francke, 2005) |
| Notes | p. 38 (description of the MS). |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | 1400 to 1450 | France | na |
MS Part Library: Trinity College
General
| Shelfmark: | O.4.26 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 126 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | good parchment in good conditions. In many istances, the bottom margin has been irregularly cut. Occasional tears, usually located outside the justification (but see f. 31ra, where a tear from the bottom margin is prolonged accross the writing space; f. 111vb, a tear in the centre of the column etc.), for instance: f. 36 (a tear external margin), 45 (tears and an hole), 51, 54 etc. The last two folios are worn and dark, the top part of the last folio (f. 126) is torn. The initial at f. 53vb is very effaced. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | 1400 to 1450 |
| Notes: |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (5) |
| Folio(s): | From 1ra to 126vb |
| Date(s): | 1400 to 1450 |
| Scribe description: | single-box a; looped ascenders in d, b, f; initial v with the first stroke prolonged on the right in a long sloping shaft that cover the top of the following letter; very long j; in the tironian note, the first stroke descends vertically beyond the base line; straight r and x traced by a single circular stroke; always short s in final position. |
Folios: 1ra - 126vb
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1ra - 4va
(§7-22) Orient I (Common redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (12) 1ra
- ParatextualType object (10)
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4va - 26vb
(§23-125) Thebes (Common redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (3) 4va
- ParatextualType object (10) 26vb
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26rb - 30va
(§126-147) Greeks and Amazons (Common redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (3) 26rb
- ParatextualType object (10) 30va
- ParatextualType object (7) 130v
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31ra - 118ra
(§p. 444-p. 449) Roman de Troie, Prose 1 (version remaniée)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (12) 31ra
- ParatextualType object (7) 118ra
Related or similar
- It is one of the six witnesses of the revised version of Prose 1 (see Jung 1996, 449-453). The Trinity MS is the only witness of the "remaniement" Prose 1 to fill the narrative lacuna of ch. 178-199 (ff. 85ra-86ra), for a transcription see Jung 1996, 461.
Shared by:
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 785
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 1631
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 24401
- Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, fr. F v XIV 12
- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 340
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117vb - 126vb
(§00-00) Heroides (Second redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (3) 117vb
- ParatextualType object (2) 118ra
- ParatextualType object (12) 126vb
Related or similar
- Trinity is one of the five manuscripts that transmit the Heroides separately from Prose 5. It is the only one to re-arrange the sequence of the letters according to the 'canonical' Ovidian order (see Jung 1996: 507-508 and Barbieri 2005 and 2007). There is a lacuna of 1 f. between f. 119 and 120. The order of the letters is: [f. 117vb] Ceste epistre enuoya philis / ademorphon son amj [f. 120ra] end of Briseis's letter [f. 120rb] Cest epistre en /uoia phedra aypolite [f. 121vb] Cest epistre oenone aparis / son amj enuoya [f. 123vb] Cest epistre enuoya adriane [sic] a theseu [f. 125ra] Ceste / epi / stre enuoya cayrasse am[.]haro son frere [126ra] Ceste / epistre enuoya laodama aprotheselao
Shared by:
- Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 3326
- Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 9571-9572
- Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, IV 995
- London, British Library, Additional 25884
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