General
| Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Sheflmark: | fonds français 1590 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: None |
| Described by: | dschoenaers |
Bindings
| Description: | Brown sheepskin binding on pasteboard with rudimentary frame gold-tooled on the front and arabeques gold-tooled on the spine. 'N' crowned flanked by two stars and laurel. |
| Date : | c. 1804 to 1815 |
| Title on binding: | Roman / d'Alexandre / en vers |
| Cover material: | Material object (10) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | none |
| Chaining: | none |
| Edges: | gilt |
| Front end papers (3): | One paper and two vellum guardleaves at the front. Annotations on the parchment flyleaves. |
| End papers (4): | Two vellum and two paper guardleaves at the back. Annotations on the parchment flyleaves. |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | c. 1315 to 1350 | Paris | none |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 1590 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 143 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | na |
| Condition: | Medium to lower quality parchment with many stitches, also in the writing space (e.g. f. 4, f. 13, f. 28, f. 38, f. 39, f. 41, f. 61, f. 63, f. 72, f. 75, f. 80, f. 85, f. 89, f. 111, f. 114, f. 126 ). Not all folios are of equal size (e.g. f. 76). On some folios the text is faded (e.g. f. 29, f. 31). Damaged folios: f. 120 mutilated; f. 64 mutilated (outer border repaired), f. 143 mutilated (outer upper corner repaired); f. 145 mutilated. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | c. 1315 to 1350 |
| Notes: | Illustrated by Thomas de Maubeuge; terminus postquem: the composition of the 'Voeux du Paon'. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 3ra to f. 95vb |
| Date(s): | c. 1300 to 1350 |
| Scribe description: | Multiple hands. Northern textualis with two-compartment a, sometimes also single-compartment 'a' (semitextualis). 'I'-linga in final position. Limb of 'h' curls below the baseline. In final position the limb of 'n' curls below the baseline. Straight 's' in final position. Use of 'v' in initial position. 3-like 'z'. Abbreviations include 's'-like apostrophe, nasal bar, superscript vowels, 'p' with crossed descender, 'p' with curl through descender, 'com'-abbreviation; -'us' abbreviation. |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 96ra to f. 145va |
| Date(s): | c. 1300 to 1350 |
| Scribe description: | The hand copying the 'Voeux du Paon' also has round 's' in final position. |
Folios: f. 1ra - f. 42vb
Folios: f. 43ra - f. 74vb
Folios: f. 75ra - f. 145va