London, British Library, Royal 19 C XII
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General information
| Folios | 84 |
| Folio notes: | f. 85 is an original parchment flyleaf. |
| Language | Language object (3) |
| Approx. date | c. 1250 to 1300 |
| Date notes | Date suggested by the British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. The Lancelot-Graal project suggests c. 1250. The writing with exclusive use of round 's' in final position confirms a date in the second half of the 13th c. |
| Place(s) of production | FranceThe Catalogue of Illuminated MSS suggests England or France. The Lancelot-Graal project tentatively puts forward Paris. Middleton 2003, 223 suggests that the MSS was probably manufactured in France, but was taken to England during the Middle Ages. |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | |
| Explicit | |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Four or five folios missing at the end (BL, Catalogue of Illuminated MSS). |
Structure
| Collation: | |
| Quire structure: | |
| Quire marks: | |
| Catchwords: | Catchwords at the bottom of the last folio of each quire |
| Catchword disposition: | |
Physical description
| General illustration: | Not illustrated. Space left for a miniature or rubric (f. 1r) (BL, Catalogue of Illuminated MSS).. |
| General decoration: | Puzzle initials (height: 8 lines, f. 37r) in red and blue with penwork decoration in either colour. Chapters are introduced by smaller initials, alternatingly red and blue with flourishings in the contrasting colour. (BL, Catalogue of Illuminated MSS) |
| Evidence of readership: | Ink drawing of a monkey carrying a cross (f. 1v). Notes in English (?) cursive hands on the flyleaves. On f. 84v 'Jacob mathiis' (BL, Catalogue of Illuminated MSS). |
| Foliations description: | Modern foliation in arabic numerals in crayon in the upper right corner of the recto. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | The intercolumn space is an approximation based on the digitised folio. |
| Page sampled | 37r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 340x240 (mm) |
| Justification | 245x165 (mm) |
| Columns | 220mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Lines | 52Line ruling present in Colours object (4) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Rubrication | Space left for an illustration or rubricated titulus on f. 1r. |
| Writing above top line? | False |
| Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (4) |
| Folio range | From 1ra to 84vb |
| Date | c. 1250 to 1300 |
| Scribe description: | Northern textualis with two-compartment 'a' with open upper compartment, clubbed (sometimes forked) ascenders for 'b', 'l', 'h', uncial 'd', 'e' without tongue, 'Rücken' -'g', limb of 'h' does not descend below the baseline, diacritic on 'i' in minim group, round 'r' in final position, round 's' in fonal position, vertical stroke of 't' ascends above the headstroke, 'v' occurs in initial position, diacritic 'dot' on 'y'. Word-separation marked with dash. Abbreviations include apostrophe, nasal bar, uncrossed tironian 'et', superscript vowels, 'com'-abbreviation. Fusion of 'd' and 'e'; st-ligature. |
| Notes | |
Provenance
| Description | In the Old Royal Library before 1666. | |
| Date | 1666 | |
| Place | Place object (124) | |
| Ownership | Person object (121) | |