General
| Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Sheflmark: | fonds français 368 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: None |
| Described by: | dschoenaers |
Bindings
| Description: | Brown leather binding on wooden boards. The arms of France gold-tooled on the front and the back. Decoration of arabesques and two 'L's intertwined gold-tooled on the spine. |
| Date : | c. 1800 |
| Title on binding: | Roman de Partenopex |
| Cover material: | Material object (5) |
| Board material: | Material object (3) |
| Fastening: | na |
| Chaining: | na |
| Edges: | na |
| Front end papers (None): | Three vellum guardleaves at the front of the manuscript. On the verso of the final guardleaf a table of contents has been added (18th c.?). It is mentioned that many leaves are missing from the manuscript, especially in the final romances. |
| End papers (3): | Three vellum guardleaves at the end of the manuscript. |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | ?1300 to 1350 | Normandy | none |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 368 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 281 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | na |
| Condition: | Good to medium quality vellum. Some holes (e.g. f. 52; f. 272), many stitches (f. 3, f. 19, f. 28, f. 36, f. 42, f. 43, f. 45, f. 46, f. 47, f. 56, f. 60v, f. 91, f. 94, f. 100, f. 109, etc.) and a few irregularities in the parchment (e.g. f. 152 in the lower margin). Worn, especially the first folios, with part of the text effaced or faded (e.g. f. 96v at the end of a quire; f. 97v, f. 98r., f. 99r; f. 108r; f. 110v.; f. 143r). Stains f. 1 to f. 3 have effaced text in the outer column. Quires lost after f. 40, f. 88, f. 160; f. 274. Folios (entire quire?) lost after f. 120 and in the final two quires. Two bifolia lost between f. 162 and 163. f. 278 is mutilated |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1300 to 1350 |
| Notes: | Harf-Lancner 2011, 211 'First half of the fourteenth century'. The script with two-compartment 'a' sometimes with open upper compartmen, sometimes with closed (sometimes single-compartment?) and straight 's'and round 's' in final position would suggest a date towards the end of the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century. . |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 1ra to f. 280ra |
| Date(s): | c. 1300 to 1350 |
| Scribe description: | Northern textualis with multiple types of two-compartment 'a' (with open and closed upper compartment, some evidence of single-compartment 'a'?), primarily round 's' in final position, but also straight 's' in the same position. Use of 'v' in initial position, 3-like 'z'. Abbreviations include 'com'-abbreviation, -'us' abbreviation, superscript letters , 'p' with crossed descender, 'p' with curl through descender, nasal bar, s-like apostrophe, crossed tironian 'et', 'est' abbreviation. |
Folios: f. 1ra - f. 280rb