General
| Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Sheflmark: | fonds français 768 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (6) |
| Described by: | dschoenaers |
Bindings
| Description: | Red morocco binding with gold-tooled on the front and back, the coat of arms of Philippe de Béthune (1566-1649). |
| Date : | c. 1600 to 1700 |
| Title on binding: | Histoire de la Marche de Gavle / Agranain |
| Cover material: | Material object (6) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | gilt |
| Front end papers (2): | Two vellum flyleaves. Old shelfmarks on the recto of the first guardleaf 'MS 172', '7185' and titles 'Roman de Lancelot du Lac / qui forme une branche de celui du St greal' (17th c.) and in another hand 'V La reine as grans dolors (f. 6 vo) A partir du fo 178, ce n'est pas le 'roman de Lancelot', mais la fin de la 'Queste de Saint Graal'. Le copiste ni la date de la copie ne sont plus les ??...??'. |
| End papers (2): | Two vellum flyleaves at the end of the manuscript. |
Digitisations
| Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.) | |
| Colour? | Black and White |
| Completeness | Full |
| Notes | |
Bibliography
| Reference | Lancelot do Lac: the Non-Cyclic Old French Prose Romance, ed. Kennedy, Elspeth, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980) |
| Notes | |
| Reference | et al., 'Lancelot-Graal Project', (2010) <http://www.lancelot-project.pitt.edu/lancelot-project.html> [accessed 13 December 2014] |
| Notes |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | c. 1220 to 1230 | Champagne | |
| [Part 2] | c. 1300 to 1325 | Italy | none |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 768 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 186 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Medium quality vellum, but worn. Some stitches (e.g. ff. 38, 39, 53, 64, 95, 125, 129, 138, 142) and holes (ff. 25, 40, 42, 71, 83, 110, 113, 120, 123, 143, 153). Top corners of ff. 13 and 157 are torn. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | c. 1220 to 1230 |
| Notes: | The text has been copied above top line suggesting a date before c. 1230. The Lancelot-Graal pPoject has c. 1220. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From 1r to 177v |
| Date(s): | c. 1225 |
| Scribe description: | Northern textualis with two-compartment 'a', the upper compartment of which is open; 'd' has a remarkably long ascender curving upwards. Straight 's' in final position. No use of 'v'. Abbreviations include nasal bar, apostrophe, crossed tironian 'et', 'p' with crossed descender and superscript vowels ('a', 'i'). |
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 768 |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 2] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 21 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | The folios are worn and damaged by damp. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | c. 1300 to 1325 |
| Notes: | According to Kennedy (1980, 46) 'in a fourteenth century hand'. The frequent use of two-compartment 'a' with open upper compartment and long 's' in final position, although less uncommon in Southern hands, suggests a date early on in the fourteenth century. |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 178ra to f. 199vb |
| Date(s): | c. 1300 |
| Scribe description: | Very round hand, leaning towards the right. Two-compartment 'a', the upper compartment of which is closed. Both round and straight 's' are used in final position. Southern features include the round limb of 'h', the almost horizontal shaft of 'd', the uncrossed tironian 'et'. |
Folios: f. 1ra - f. 186vb
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f. 1ra - f. 173va
(§Ia-LXXIa) Lancelot's childhood and adolescence to his installation as a knight of the Round Table (Single redaction)
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f. 173va - f. 186vb
(§I-XXXV) From the journey to Sorelois to the death of Galehot (non-cyclic version)
- Termination object (1): folios missing after this segment
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Folios: f. 187ra - f. 199vb
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f. 187ra - f. 199vb (= f. 209)
(§N/A-N/A) Queste del saint Graal (N/A)
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