Folios | 2 |
Folio notes: | One and a half folio supplied at the beginning of an early 13th-c. copy of the 'Queste' and 'Mort' to replace the lost 1st folio, which was potentially cut for its frontispiece. The recto side of the first folio has been left blank. A title is provided on the verso. |
Language | Language object (3) |
Approx. date | c. 1400 |
Date notes | The fractured writing (textualis with two-compartment 'a' with closed upper compartment, type: box 'a', round 's' in final position, many hairlines), together with the decor suggests a date in the 15th c. |
Place(s) of production | |
First words of second recto folio | [f. 3ra] Cy commence la queste du saint / graal . |
First words of last recto folio | [f. 3ra] Cy commence la queste du saint / graal . |
Incipit | [f. 2v] Cy co(m)mence laqueste du saint greal . Et co(m)ment les / cheuailliers de la table ronde lont entrepris [...] / lan . iiij .C. et quatre . Et si deuise co(m)ment [le Roy] / artus <-mourut en contre> se combati en contre / mordret de la bataille dont ilz estoient . C . mille / et nene demoura oncques que . iij . dont le Roy en / estoit . i . et lucans le bouteillier . et girfles . / Cy deuise co(m)ment lancelot du lac se rendit de / puis ses choses la en . j . hermitaige (et) de vint p(re)stre // [f. 3ra] Cy commence la queste du saint / graal / La ueille de la pentecoste / qua(n)t les compaignons / de la table ronde furent / ue / nus a kamaalot (et) il orent oy le / seruice et len uoloit metre les ta / |
Explicit | [f. 3vb] ore mais <+si> tost q(ui)l soit ??.??iex (et) mestier (et) / lors sep(ar)t la(n)c(elot) ses (com)paigno(n)z (et) cheua / chere(n)t enseble ta(n)t q(ui)lz so(n)t ue[...] a kamaalot / a he(ur) de tierce (et) le roy est ale au mo(n)stier / |
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