Part of set: Additional 10292-10294
Three-volume set, the first of which (Additional 10292) has the 'Estoire', 'Merlin' and 'Suite Vulgate', the second (Additional 10293) has the 'Lancelot propre' (the opening folio is bound seperately) and the final volume has shortened versions of the 'Queste' and 'Mort Artu'.
| Library: | British Library |
| Sheflmark: | Additional 10293 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: None |
| Described by: | dschoenaers |
| Description: | Red morocco binding on pasteboard, arms gold-tooled on the front and back (John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe). Floral patterns gold-tooled on the spine. |
| Date : | ?1750 to 1804 |
| Title on binding: | Recveil / de romans / de chevaler / de la / tabl. r. // Tom II / Estoire / de Lancelot / dv lac |
| Cover material: | Material object (6) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | na |
| Chaining: | na |
| Edges: | gilt |
| Front end papers (2): | Two paper guardleaves at the front of the manuscript. |
| End papers (2): | Two paper guardleaves at the rear of the manuscript. |
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | c. 1317 | Northern France | na |
| Shelfmark: | Additional 10293 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 382 folios |
| Page layout: |
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | na |
| Condition: | Good quality vellum. Some stitches (f. 18, f. 22, f. 3653) Generally in good condition. Lower margins of ff. 125 to 136 repaired, requiring some restitution of the text; the entire lower corner of f. 136 was damaged at some point. Outer corners of f. 222-223 repaired. Hole in writings space f. 265ra/vc. |
| Date(s): | c. 1317 |
| Notes: | On the basis of the date in February 1316 (Easter style) inscribed on the tomb depicted in the miniature on f. 55v in volume I of the manuscript. The hand (writing a Northern textualis with double-compartment 'a' the upper compartment of which is closed, type double bow 'a' and round 's' in final position) allows for a dating in the first quarter of the fourteenth century. |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 1ra to f. 71vc |
| Date(s): | c. 1317 |
| Scribe description: | The division of scribes follows Stones and Gulick 2010. Northern textualis with double compartment 'a' the upper compartment of which is closed, type double bow 'a'. Ascenders clubbed or forked. Round 'd'. Tongued 'e' in final position. Lower lobe of 'g' closed, standing on the baseline. Limb of 'h', sometimes angular, curving to the left below the baseline. Diacritic on 'i' in minim group. Use of 'v' in initial position. Abbreviations include apostrophe, nasal mark, crossed tironian note, 'p' with crossed descender, 'com' and 'us' abbreviations, superscript vowels Biting of 'or' 'bo' 'de' 'do' 'st'-ligature. 'll'-ligature. word-separation indicated by dash. |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 72ra to f. 127vc |
| Date(s): | c. 1317 |
| Scribe description: | The division of scribes follows Stones and Gulick 2010. Shares the majority of its characteristics with the first scribe; limb of 'h' is possibly more angular. Starts smaller, gradually becomes larger and rounder. Possibly the same as scribe one, but writing with a new pen. |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 128ra to f. 383va |
| Date(s): | c. 1317 |
| Scribe description: | Distinguishes himself from the previous scribe(s) by the form of 'a' which is rounder and more box-like. Superscript 'a' is closed (as opposed to the previous portion of the manuscript. Other form of littera notabiliores (notably 'S'). The feet of minims are more 'rotundus' as opposed to the sometimes praescissus treatment of the other scribe(s). |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 1ra to f. 128vc |
| Date(s): | c. 1317 |
| Scribe description: | Rubricator. None of the rubricators can be identified with one of the scribes (cf Stones and Gulick 2010). |
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 129ra to f. 383va |
| Date(s): | c. 1317 |
| Scribe description: | Rubricator. More angular than the hand writing the rubrics in the first part of the manuscript (especially 'a'), 'h' curves to the left beneath the baseline. |