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Shelfmark:	fonds français 20125
MS Part Title:	Livre des estoires Rogier
Ms Part Folios:	375 folios
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Material

MS Part Material:	Material object (4)
Watermark:	na
Condition:	High grade vellum, in good condition. Some wear on first and last folios. The first folio has been damaged in the lower border and affected by damp. On f. 56 and f. 57 pen-decorated initials have been cut.

Date Information

Date(s):

c. 1250 to 1300

Notes:

'Manuscrit en parchemin du troisième quart du XIIIe s.' (De Visser-van Terwisga 1999, 24) 'a copy produced at a scriptorium in Saint-Jean d'Acre in about the year 1287.' (Coker-Joslin 1986, 20) 'Frankreich, drittes Viertel 13. Jahrhundert' (Oltrogge 1989, 302). The script, a Northern textualis with double-compartment 'a', the upper compartment of which is open or closed (double-bow 'a'), and round 's' in final position, slightly descending below the baseline, would confirm a date in the second half of the thirteenth century. The straight Carolingian 'd' occassionally used (e.g. in the rubric f. 226va) is an archaic feature dating to the end of the twelfth, beginning of the thirteenth century.

Hand

Level of Execution:	Execution object (3)
Folio(s):	From 1 to 375
Date(s):	?1250 to 1300
Scribe description:	two compartment 'a' of which the upper compartment is open or closed (double-bow 'a'). Occasional use of right (Carolingian) d. Tongued 'e' in final position. Use of 'i'-longa in numerals. No use of 'v'. Round 's' in final position. Use of trailing 's' at the end of the line. Relatively few abbreviations including superscript vowels, crossed tironian note, 'p' with crossed descender, '-us' abbreviation, nasal mark. Rubricated titles and quire marks / catchwords in the same hand. Corrections in the margin (e.g. 12r).

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    • God loves noble men (Verse) from folio 30r to 30v,
    • On Sodomy (Verse) from folio 28v to 28v,
    • On God, our guardian (Verse) from folio 24r to 24v,
    • On Death (Verse) from folio 21v to 21v,
    • Against vanity (Verse) from folio 14r to 14v,
    • One has to refrain from doing evil (Verse) from folio 10r to 10v

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  • 89r - 117v

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  • 117v - 123v

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  • 179r - 199r

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  • 199r - 220v

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  • 220v - 256v

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  • 256v - 369v

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    • On cowardice and vanity (Verse) from folio 288v to 289r,
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  • 369v - 375v

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