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Detailed record for Royal 19 B VII
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| Title |
Lancelot du Lac (imperfect at the beginning and end) |
| Origin |
England |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours (e.g., ff. 1v, 13v, 142). Numerous small initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Over-run text marked with paraphs in red or blue (e.g., f. 124). |
| Dimensions in mm |
300 x 230 ( 240 x 180) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 294 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1969. |
| Provenance |
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): in the catalogue of 1666 (f. 11v).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
One leaf is missing at the beginning and one after f. 6.
This manuscript is a copy made from Corpus Christi College MS 45: it contains the same textual markers and marginal corrections (see Stones 2007).
There is a break at f. 142 and a new scribe begins here.
The dialect is western, with some Anglo-Norman features, but the MS is not included in Dean. |
| Select bibliography |
H. Oskar Sommer, Le Roman de Merlin or the Early History of King Arthur (London: Privately printed, 1894), facing p. xxiv.
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I, pp. 349-50.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, p. 326.
Le Roman en Prose de Lancelot du Lac: Le conte de la Charrette, ed by Gweneth Hutchings (Paris: Librairie E. Droz, 1938), pp. xii, xli.
A. Micha, 'Les Manuscrits du Lancelot en Prose', Romania, 84 (1963), 28-60 (pp. 53-54).
A. Micha, 'La Tradition Manuscrite du Lancelot en Prose, Romania, 85 (1964), 293-318, 478-517 (pp. 300-10, 314-18, 503, 509, 512, 515-17).
Lancelot do Lac, the non-cyclic Old French prose romance, ed. by Elspeth Kennedy. 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), I, pp. 1-572 [for an edition of the text], II, pp. 1, 15, 19-28.
Elspeth Kennedy, 'Le Lancelot en prose (MS 45)', in Les manuscrits francais de la bibliotheque Parker: Actes du Colloque 24-27 mars 1993, ed. by Nigel Wilkins (Cambridge: Parker Library Publications, 1993), pp. 23-38 (pp. 27, 31)
Roger Middleton, 'Manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England and Wales: Some Books and their Owners' in A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, ed. by Carol Dover (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 219-35 (p. 223).
Roger Middleton, 'The Manuscripts' in The Arthur of the French, ed. by Glyn S. Burgess and Karen Pratt , Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, 4 vols (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), IV, pp. 8-92 (pp. 46, 55).
Alison Stones, 'Some Secular Illustrated manuscripts in Cambridge Collections', in The Cambridge Illuminations: The Conference Papers, ed. by Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2007), pp. 139-50 (p. 140). |
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