General
| Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Sheflmark: | fonds français 344 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (2) Segmentation: InformationSource object (2) |
| Described by: | dschoenaers |
Bindings
| Description: | Red morocco binding on pasteboard. The coat of arms of France gold-tooled on the front and back. Fleurs-de-lys gold-tooled on the spine. The Bnf also hold the front and back plates of a previous binding in brown leather, with decoration tooled in gold. |
| Date : | None |
| Title on binding: | Lancelot du Lac |
| Cover material: | Material object (6) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (4): | One vellum, two paper and one additional vellum guardleaf at the front of the MSS. The first sheet of parchment was formerly used as a pastedown. |
| End papers (3): | Two paper and one vellum guardleaves at the end of the MS. The sheet of parchment was formerly used as a pastedown. |
Digitisations
| Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.) | |
| Colour? | Colour |
| Completeness | Full |
| Notes | |
Bibliography
| Reference | ': Répertoire des textes et des manuscrits médiévaux d'oc et d'oïl', (IRHT, 1998-2013) <http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr> [accessed 13 December 2014] |
| Notes | |
| Reference | ,The Book of Lancelot: The Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation and the Medieval Tradition of Narrative Cycles (Cambridge: Brewer, 2003) |
| Notes | |
| Reference | et al., Album de manuscrits français du XIIIe siècle: Mise en page et mise en texte (Rome: Viella, 2001) |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , 'Les manuscrits du Lancelot en prose (premier article)', Romania, 81 (1960), 145-87 |
| Notes | |
| Reference | et al., 'Lancelot-Graal Project', (2010) <http://www.lancelot-project.pitt.edu/lancelot-project.html> [accessed 13 December 2014] |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , 'The Manuscripts', in Glyn S. Burgess and Karen Pratt (eds), The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), pp. 8-92 |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , '‘Mise en page’ in the French Lancelot-Grail: the First 150 Years of the Illustrative Tradition', in Carol Dover (ed.), A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Cambridge: DS Brewer, 2003), 125-144. |
| Notes |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | 1290 to 1300 | East France |
Related MS
| Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reginense Latino 1489: |
Similar version of project text(s)Spadini 2014 notes that for the first segment of the text (Lancelot's childhood) the readings in these MSS are close to each other on numerous occasions. |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 344 : | |
| Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 828: | |
| Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Q b 6: | |
| Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 49: | |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 344 : |
illustrated by the same artistAccording to Stones 2003, 132, these are twin MSS. |
| Paris, Private Collection , Olim Phillipps 1047: |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 344 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 548 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Good quality vellum. On f. 19, large holes in the written space, which have been evaded by the scribe. Smaller holes in the written space of f. 47. Also ff. 79, 103, 174, 263, 341, 400, 417, 453, 489, 504, 511, 515. Larger hole, in the inner column of f. 538. On f. 43, stitch in the lower part of the inner column. Also ff. 53. Some damage. On f. 1r, ink and paint have faded. Outer margins of the first folios damaged. f. 40r, damaged, text-loss in the 5th to 10th line of the inner column. f. 45, the larger part of the folio has been torn out. f. 45, lower corner torn, some text-loss. ff. 57 to 63, hole in the outer column. ff. 74-75, lower part of the folio torn out. ff. 76-77, lower outer corner torn. f. 80, hole in outer column. Also ff. 280, 350, 385. f. 475, damaged in the upper inner corner, causing some text-loss. The upper part of f. 476 torn out. f 548, damaged and stained. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | 1290 to 1300 |
| Notes: | The Lancelot-Graal project suggests 1290 to 1300. Jonas gives 1295 to 1300. Arthurian Fiction has 1250 to 1300. Careri 2001, 123 reports dates ranging from the second quarter of the 13th c. to 1250-1300. Based on the writing, a date towards the end of the 13th c. appears most likely. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 1ra to f. 548vb |
| Date(s): | c. 1275 to 1300 |
| Scribe description: | Small textualis with two-compartment 'a', closed upper compartment (double bow 'a'), uncial 'd', 'e' with tongue, 'Rücken'-'g', limb of 'h' curves below the baseline, diacritic on 'i' not limited to minim group, straight and round 's' in final position, 'v' in initial position, also mid-word, diacritic on 'y', 3-like 'z'. Abbreviations include crossed tironian 'et', nasal bar, apostrophe, 'p' with crossed descender, superscript vowels ('a'), 'com'-abbreviation. Fusion of 'o' and round 'r''st' ligature. Punctuation: punctus and punctus elevatus, comma as question mark. Slightly leaning towards the left. Multiple hands. (Careri 2001, 125) |
Folios: f. 1r - f. 517v
-
f. 1ra - f. 81rb
(§00-00) Estoire del saint Graal (N/A)
-
f. 81v - f. 101v
(§00-00) Roman de Merlin (N/A)
-
f. 101v - f. 184r
(§00-00) Suite du Merlin (N/A)
-
f. 184r - f. 277r
(§Ia-LXXIa) Lancelot's childhood and adolescence to his installation as a knight of the Round Table (Single redaction)
-
f. 277r - f. 319v
(§I-XXXV) From the journey to Sorelois to the death of Galehot (long cyclic version)
-
f. 319v - f. 333r
(§XXXVI-XLII) Conte de la Charette (beta)
-
f. 333r - f. 368r
(§XLIII-LXIX) Suites de la Charette (long cyclic version)
-
f. 368r - f. 476r
(§LXX-CVIII) Agravain and preparation to the Quest (long cyclic version)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (12)
-
f. 476r - f. 517v
(§00-00) Queste del saint Graal (N/A)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
-
Folios: f. 518r - f. 548v
-
f. 518r - f. 548v
(§00-00) Mort le roi Artu (N/A)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (12)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
-