Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reginense Latino 1505
L'estoire de Troye et de Greze (rubric)
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General information
| Folios | 233 |
| Folio notes: | Contains only the 'Roman de Troie'. |
| Language | Language object (48) |
| Approx. date | ?1267 to 1349 |
| Date notes | Constans thought that the first two quires were copied 'au dernier tiers du XIIIe siècle', and the rest during 'la 1re moitié du XIVe' (1912, VI:50). Jung suggests a slightly narrower date range: 'fin du XIIIe et début du XIVe siècle' (1996, 274; cf. Busby 2002, II:608). |
| Place(s) of production | 'May be of Central Italian origin', on art historical grounds (Buchthal 1971, 14; cf. Jung 1996, 274). Constans notes numerous Italianisms in the language of the copyists (1912, VI:51). |
| First words of second recto folio | [f. 2ra] Il cravantarent Ylion (Jung 1996, 274) |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | [f. 1ra] Ici comence le prolege en l'estoire de Troye et de Greze faite por Daire et por Ditis et translatee en françois por Beneoit de Sainte More / Salemons nos ensegne e dit (Jung 1996, 274) |
| Explicit | [f. 232va] C il se porroient molt bien taire. / D e loure blasmer (et) retraire . / C ar tels iuoldrent afaitier . / Q(ui) tost iporreit enpirier . / C elui gart dex (et) tienge (et) uoie . / Q(ui) bien essauce (et) molteploie. / A M E I S . / Explicit Romancium belle troianor(um). / Explicit. / Finito libro referamus gr(ati)a (Christ)o. / C i faut li romanz de troie . / D eus mantegne (et) doint joie . / C elui qui le fist escrire . / E t celuí qui ot pene alescrire / (Et) jor (et) nuít isoffri g(ra)nz martire . / C i poet lom tel chose lire . / O lom deureít g(ra)nz sen prendre . / (Et) qui raison set entendre / N e croie que p(ar) ??r??omanz / S eit dannez nus homs uíuanz . Icest líure ot chartres .C.C.xxxiiij.or / por la graze de Dies et saint jaque. // |
Related MS
| 'Related iconographically' (Busby 2002, II:608). | |
| RelationshipType object (13) | Manuscript object (368)Manuscript object (334)Manuscript object (371) |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
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Structure
| Collation: | 1-68 7-1010 119 12-1410 159 16-2410 257 |
| Quire structure: | Originally composed of six quaternions, 18 quinions, and a quire of 7 leaves. Quire 11 now wants its final leaf (between ff. 97 and 98), and quire quire 15 its second (between ff. 128 and 129). See Jung 1996, 274-5. |
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Physical description
| No. of illustrations: | 260 |
| General illustration: | 257 miniatures, mostly page-width, occupy the upper, lower, or middle of pages. Two are full-page miniatures. Some are framed. See Jung 1996, 277-87 for further details. There are historiated initials marking vv. 1, 715 and 2825 and representing Salomon, Peleus and Darès respectively. |
| General decoration: | Within the decorative frame of f. 1r, a shield sable two fesses or in chief a lion passant or. Apart from the historiated initials, there are no other large initials. Paragraphs are marked by small pen-flourished initials (height: 2 lines, or 3 lines for the second scribe), alternating red and blue, with decoration in the contrasting colour. |
| Evidence of readership: | Carefully revised, e.g. 'vacat' marks the repeated passage on ff. 88vb-89vb, 'a' and 'b' used to reorder lines on f. 175vb, etc. f. 1r: signature of Bourdelot. |
| Foliations description: | Traces of medieval foliation on f. 98v: 'carte .c.'. The modern foliation runs 1-74, 74 bis, 75-232. |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | Source: Jung 1996, 274. The first and third scribes use end-line points. |
| Page sampled | |
| Layout | MSLayout object (4) |
| Page dimensions | 284x220 (mm) |
| Justification | 210x160 (mm) |
| Columns | 2mm between columns |
| Lines | 40 |
| Rubrication | Rubricated tituli mark the major divisions of the narrative. Red ink is also used to name characters depicted in the miniatures, and to highlight majuscules. |
| Writing above top line? | False |
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Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | None |
| Script | Script object (1) |
| Folio range | From 1ra to 16vb |
| Date | ?1267 to 1299 |
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| Level of Execution: | None |
| Script | Script object (1) |
| Folio range | From 17ra to 223rb |
| Date | ?1300 to 1349 |
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| Level of Execution: | None |
| Script | Script object (1) |
| Folio range | From 223va to 232va |
| Date | ?1300 to 1349 |
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