General
| Library: | Bibliothèque nationale de France | 
| Sheflmark: | fonds français 9685 | 
| Information source: | 
                        Physical description: InformationSource object (4) Segmentation: InformationSource object (4)  | 
                
| Described by: | sgaunt, ewilliams | 
Bindings
| Description: | Wood and leather binding | 
| Date : | 1973 | 
| Title on binding: | ?? | 
| Cover material: | Material object (2) | 
| Board material: | Material object (3) | 
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers : | |
| End papers : | Manuscript is incomplete at the end | 
Digitisations
| Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.) | |
| Colour? | Black and White | 
| Completeness | Full | 
| Notes | |
Bibliography
| Reference | , Die Illustrationszyklen zur 'Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César' (1250-1400) (Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 1989)  | 
                        
| Notes | pp. 36- 37, 295-98 | 
| Reference | La Légende de Troie en France au moyen âge (Basel; Tubingen: Francke Verlag, 1996)  | 
                        
| Notes | pp. 347, 354, 355, 535 note. | 
| Reference | , '"je qui li livre escrive de letre en vulgal": scrivere il francese a Napoli in età angioina', in Giancarlo Alfano, Teresa D'Urso, and Alessandra Perriccioli Saggese (eds), Boccaccio angioino: materiali per la storia di Napoli nel Trecento (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2012)  | 
                        
| Notes | pp. 163-66 | 
| Reference | , I romanzi cavallereschi miniati a Napoli (Naples: Società Editrice Napoletana, 1979)  | 
                        
| Notes | |
| Reference | , 'Romanzi cavallereschi miniati a Napoli al tempo di Boccaccio', in Giancarlo Alfano, Teresa D'Urso and Alessandra Perriccioli Saggese (eds), Boccaccio angioino: materiali per la storia culturale di Napoli nel Trecento, (Peter Lang: Brussels, 2012), pp. 347-56  | 
                        
| Notes | |
| Reference | , 'Classical Mythology in Mediaeval Art', Metropolitan Museum Studies, 4.2 (1933), 228-80  | 
                        
| Notes | |
| Reference | , 'Manoscritti di prose cortesi compilati in Italia (secc. XIII-XIV): stato della questione e prospettive di ricerca', in Saverio Guida and Fortunata Latella (eds), La filologia romanza e i codici. Atti del convegno (Messina, 19-22 dicembre 1991) (Messina: Sicania, 1993), vol. 2, pp. 419-41  | 
                        
| Notes | |
| Reference | , Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, Part 1, 4 vols (Berlin: Mann, 1968)  | 
                        
| Notes | 
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Cestui liure est apelles la bible en fra(n) / sois qui parole del uieill testam(en)t [etc., title in the rubrics] | c. 1300 | Genoa, Italy | none | 
Related MS
| Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticano Latino 5895: | 
                            
							
								from the same atelierPerriccioli Saggese 1979, 89 Avril & Gousset 1984, 48  | 
						
					
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 9685: | |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 760: | 
                            
							
								Decorated by the same artistThe same artist responsible for initials in BnF fr. 9685 and fr. 760 (Avril & Gousset 1984, 48).  | 
						
					
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 9685: | |
| Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reginense latino 1501: | 
                            
							
								Similar decorationGousset's Group 1 (1988, 130n)  | 
						
					
| Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticano Latino 5895: | |
| Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 123: | |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 760: | |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 9685: | |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 16998: | |
| Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds latin 6002: | 
MS Part Library: Bibliothèque nationale de France
General
| Shelfmark: | fonds français 9685 | 
| MS Part Title: | Cestui liure est apelles la bible en fra(n) / sois qui parole del uieill testam(en)t [etc., title in the rubrics] | 
| Ms Part Folios: | 161 folios | 
| Page layout: | 
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) | 
| Watermark: | na | 
| Condition: | Damage to folios makes parts of text illegible e.g. f. 161v; f. 150r. Localised staining (e.g. ff. 136 - 141) and sections of significant fading (e.g. f. 83va; f. 96rb; f. 117v). | 
Date Information
| Date(s): | c. 1300 | 
| Notes: | '1282-1283 circa' (Perriccioli Saggese 1979, 89) 'XIIIème - XIVème siècles' (Avril and Gousset 1984, 47) 'About 1300' (Panofsky-Saxl 1933, 262) | 
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) | 
| Folio(s): | From 2r to 161v | 
| Date(s): | c. 1300 | 
| Scribe description: | 
Folios: 2ra - 161vb
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2ra - 62vb
(§Coker-Joslin 1-Coker-Joslin 513) Genesis (Common redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (2) 2r
 - ParatextualType object (2) 6r
 - ParatextualType object (3) 2ra
 - ParatextualType object (2) 2r
 
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62vb - 65rb
(§De Visser-Van Terwisga, 1-De Visser-Van Terwisga, 22) Orient I (Common redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (3) 62vb
 
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65rb - 84vb
(§De Visser-Van Terwisga, 23 -De Visser-Van Terwisga, 125 ) Thebes (Common redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (2) 65rb
 
Related or similar
- Seems closer to the Vienna ms. than the Paris ms., as quoted in De Visser-Van Terwisga
 Shared by:
- Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 2576
 
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84vb - 88va
(§de Visser-Van Terwisga, 126-de Visser-Van Terwisga, 146) Greeks and Amazons (Common redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (2) 84vb
 
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88vb - 108rb
(§Jung 1-Jung 71) Troy (Common redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (2) 88vb
 - ParatextualType object (3)
 
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108rb - 127rb
(§Monfrin 1-Monfrin 57) Eneas (Common redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (3)
 
Related or similar
- FssToMSRelationshipType object (3): The Eneas narrative is not marked out as a separate section.
 Shared by:
- Carpentras, Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, 1260
 
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127rb - 144ra
(§BnF fr. 20125 179r-BnF fr. 20125 199r) Rome I (Common redaction)
Includes:
- On generosity (Prose) from folio 128 to 128,
 - One should lead a pious life (Prose) from folio 134 to 134
 
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (2) 127va
 - ParatextualType object (3) 127rb
 
Related or similar
- FssToMSRelationshipType object (4):
 Shared by:
- Carpentras, Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, 1260
 
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144ra - 161
(§BnF fr. 20125 199r-BnF fr. 20125 220v) Orient II (Common redaction)
Paratextual features:
- ParatextualType object (2) 144ra
 - ParatextualType object (3) 144ra
 
 
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