General
| Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Sheflmark: | fonds français 103 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (2) Segmentation: InformationSource object (2) |
| Described by: |
Bindings
| Description: | ??not visible on Gallica On inside cover, in late 15th/ early 16th century handwriting, 'Cest pour le Roy / Des histoires et des liures en francoys pul ??to S(anc)to / entre la premiere et seconde croysees . / Contre la muraille vers les fosses . / bloys' |
| Date : | None |
| Title on binding: | ?? |
| Cover material: | None |
| Board material: | None |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | ?? |
| Front end papers : | 1 medieval vellum endpaper (not foliated) with, recto, 'Volume de 383 Feuillets / 5 Mai 1887' |
| End papers : | only first recto side digitized on Gallica. |
Digitisations
| Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.) | |
| Colour? | Black and White |
| Completeness | Full |
| Notes | |
Bibliography
| Reference | , Études sur le 'Tristan' en prose: les sources, les manuscrits, bibliographie critique (Paris: Champion, 1925) |
| Notes | Notice pp. 39- 40 on textual relations and extracts published in Bédier 1886 and Paulin Paris (1836-48). |
| Reference | Le Roman de Tristan par Thomas: poème du XIIe siècle, ed. Bédier, Joseph, 2 vols (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1902-1905) |
| Notes | Publishes extracts of fr. 103 in appendix to volume II of his Thomas edition. |
| Reference | and with , Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas meridionaux. I Manuscrits de Louis de Bruges (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2009) |
| Notes | List of all of Louis de Bruges/ Lodewijk van Gruythuse's MSS at end. Locates fr. 103's origin as Rouen in the third quarter of the fifteenth century (p. 322). |
| Reference | , 'An Anglo-Burgundian Nobleman and Art Patron: Louis de Bruges, Lord of la Gruthuyse and Earl of Winchester', in Caroline Barron and Nigel Saul (eds), England and the Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages (Stroud and New York, 1995), pp. 115-32 |
| Notes | Overview of Louis' artistic patronage, with particular reference to the extent of his possible influence over Edward IV's patronage. |
| Reference | , Le 'Tristan en prose': essai d'interprétation d'un roman médiéval (Geneva: Droz, 1975) |
| Notes | pp. 77- 85. Specific discussion of text witnessed in fr. 103. |
| Reference | , Le 'Tristan en prose': essai d'interprétation d'un roman médiéval (Geneva: Droz, 1975) |
| Notes | Discussion on fr. 103 witness pp. 77- 83, including pp. 78-9 a table giving a complete breakdown relative to Löseth and the interpolations. |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le rommant de Tristan et Yseult (explicit) | ?1450 to 1475 | Rouen | na |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 103 |
| MS Part Title: | Le rommant de Tristan et Yseult (explicit) |
| Ms Part Folios: | 385 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | none |
| Condition: | Very good. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1450 to 1475 |
| Notes: | Vinaver 1925, 39 dates fr. 103 to the end of the 15th c. Haus-Collas 2009, 322 dates the MS to 1450-75. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From 1r to 383v |
| Date(s): | 1450 to 1490 |
| Scribe description: | Single compartment ‘a’, risers without loops and ‘f’ and long ‘s’ descending below the base line. Also uses two-compartment terminal ‘s’. Uses capital R at beginnings of words. |
Folios: 1r - 383v
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1ra - 27ra
(§Prologue-Lös. 19) Prologue, and Tristan's ancestry (Common Version)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (2) 10 va.
- ParatextualType object (1) 1r
- ParatextualType object (11) f. 13va-17rb
Related or similar
- Prologue shard with BnF fr. 334 and 776. Vinaver 1925, 39, cf. stemma on p. 34.
Shared by:
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 103
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 334
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 776
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27ra - 237va
(§Lös. 20-Lös. 183) Tristan's adventures in Ireland, Brittany, and the Morrois (Common Version)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (6) 292
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237va - 278rb
(§Lös. 184a-Lös. 252a) Adventures of Tristan and Marc in Logres, and their reconciliation (Vulgate Version)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (11) f. 238
Related or similar
- Shares the passage where Tristan lodges with Morgain (Lös 184a-185a) with a number of other BnF MSS (sc. fr. 334, 750, 335, 776, 97, 102, 349, 100, 99 and 94).
Shared by:
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 94
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 97
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 99
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 100
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 102
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 334
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 335
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 349
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 750
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 776
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278rb - 301ra
(§Lös. 252a-Lös. 282g) Invasion of Cornwall by the Saxons, Tristan's imprisonments, and the lovers' departure for Logres (Vulgate Version)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (11) 286va-b
- ParatextualType object (11) 297ra- va
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301ra - 339ra
(§Lös. 338c-Lös. 384) Tournament of Louvezerp (Common Version)
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339ra - 372rb
(§Lös. 449d-Lös. 492) Rustichello da Pisa, Arthurian compilation (N/A)
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372va - 374ra
(§Lös. 384-Lös. 385) Tournament of Louvezerp (Common Version)
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374ra - 383va
(§Lös. 535a-Lös. 547a) Death of the lovers (Common Version)
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