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Detailed record for Royal 14 E III

Title Estoire del Saint Graal, La Queste del Saint Graal, Morte Artu
Origin France, N. (Saint-Omer or Tournai?)
Date 1st quarter of the 14th century
Language French
Script Gothic
Decoration 116 miniatures in colours and gold, at the beginning of chapters, some with instruction (e.g., ff. 7, 109), or sketches (f. 20) for illuminators. Partial bar borders with hybrid creatures, animals and human figures, at the beginning of each text (ff. 3, 89, 140). Initials in gold with purple pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing, with pen-flourished extensions in blue and red. Initials in gold on blue and rose grounds with penwork decoration in white (ff. 140-161).
Dimensions in mm 485 x 335 (345 x 245 ) in three columns
Official foliation ff. 162 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end; ff. 1, 2, 162 are medieval parchment flyleaves)
Form Parchment codex
Binding Post-1600. The Royal Library binding of brown leather with royal arms, 1757.
Provenance Charles V (b. 1338, d. 1380), king of France: listed in the catalogue of his library at Louvre composed after his death in 1380, no. 277.
Charles VI (b. 1368, d. 1422), king of France: inherited by him with the Louvre Library: listed in the inventories of 1411, no. 186, 1413, no. 228 and 1424, no. 219 (see Léopold Delisle, Recherches sur la Librairie de Charles V, 2 vols (Paris: Champion, 1907), II, no 1113).
John [John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford (b. 1389, d.1435), regent of France and prince, probably purchased by him with the entire library of Charles V after Charles VI's death.
Sir Richard Roos of Gedney (d. 1482): inscribed, 'Cest livre est a moy Richard Roos chivaler', with a partially erased list of contents in his hand mentioning a text of 'Tristan'. The inscription reads, 'The begynnyng of the first boke of sangrealle endureth to the ende of the iiii xx viii lefe this sig[ne]... [an]d endureth to the commyng in of [L]auncelot / And after that the boke of Tristram and launcelot ... ben the boke of paper [and] the olde boke of parchment and after the mort darthur ahere of the begynnynge ys yn this same boke and [beginneth] at...'(f. 2v).
Eleanor Haute, niece of Sir Richard Roos, wife of Sir Richard Haute: inscribed 'Thys boke is myne dame Alyanor Haute' (f. 162); bequeathed to her in Sir Richard's Roos will, proved 2 April 1482, and described as 'grete booke called saint Grall bounde in boordes coverde with rede leder and plated with plates of laten' (see Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 1995).
Elisabeth Woodville (b. c. 1437, d. 1492), wife of Edward IV (or Edward Woodville, her brother): inscribed, 'E. Wydevyll' (f. 162), with her children's names 'Elysabeth, the kyngys dowter and Cecyl the kyngys dowter.' (f. 1).
Jane or Joan Grey, Elizabeth's Woodville sister, wife of Anthony Grey de Ruthin, heir of the earl of Kent (d. 1491): inscribed, 'Jane Grey' (f. 1).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 93 as 'Le Saint Gral donne a la royne'.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
Notes Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Includes: Estoire del Saint Graal, imperfect (ff. 1-88); La Queste del Saint Graal (ff. 89-139); abridged version of the Morte Artu, imperfect, attributed to Walter Map (ff. 140-161).
This manuscript is connected in style to Additional 10292-10294 and to former Amsterdam, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, MS 1 (sold at Sotheby's, December 2010, lot 33), both containing Arthurian cycles.
Bifolium signatures.
Select bibliography 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, H. L. D. Ward, pp. 341-42, 354-54.

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. 140.

C. E. Wright, 'Paleography and Manuscripts', The Year's Work in Librarianship, 15 (1948), 248-66 (p. 257).

Michael Murjanoff, 'Handschriftliches aus Leningrad', Vox Romanica: Annales Helvetici Explorandis Linguis Romanicis Destinati, 24 (1965) 82-87 (p. 82).

Elisabeth Remak-Honnef, 'Text and Image in the Estoire del Saint Graal: A Study of London, British Library MS Royal 14. E. iii' (ubpublished doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1987).

Alison Stones, 'Another Short Note on Rylands French I', in Romanesque and Gothic: Essays for George Zarnecki, 2 vols (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1987), I, pp. 185-92 (pp. 187-88).

Alison Stones, 'Indications écrites et modèles picturaux, guides aux peintres de manuscrits enluminés aux environs de 1300', in Artistes, artisans et production artistique au Moyen Age: Colloque international, ed. by. Xavier Barral i Altet, 3 vols (Paris: Picard, 1986-90), III: Fabrication et consommation de l'oeuvre, pp. 321-49 (pp. 325, 326, 332).

Julia Walworth, 'Tristan in Medieval Art', in Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook, ed. by Joan Tasker Grimbert (New York: Garland, 1995), pp. 255-300 (p. 291, pl. 14).

Janet Backhouse, 'Illuminated Manuscripts Associated with Henry VII and Members of his Immediate Family', in The Reign of Henry VII: Proceedings of the 1993 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by Benjamin Thompson (Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1995), pp. 175-87 (p. 181).

Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, 'A 'Most Benevolent Queen': Queen Elizabeth Woodville's Reputation, her Piety and her Books', The Ricardian. Journal of the Richard III Society, 10 (1995), 214-45 (pp. 228-30).

The Mythical Quest: In Search of Adventure, Romance and Enlightenment, intro. by Penelope Lively (London: British Library, 1996), pls on pp. 82, 84, 85, 86.

Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince (Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton, 1997), pp. 35, 223.

Martine Meuwese, 'Three Illustrated Prose Lancelots from the same Atelier', in Text and Image: Studies in the French Illustrated Book from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 81 (1999), 97-125 (pp. 98, 101, n. 6).

Maurits Smeyers, Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century (Leuven: Brepols, 1999), pl. 29, p. 131.

The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H1.93.

Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475 (Leuven: Brepols, 2002), no. 52 [exhibition catalogue].

Elizabeth B. Moore, 'The Urban Fabric and Framework of Ghent', in ’Als Ich Can’: Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, ed. by Bert Cardon and others, 2 vols (Paris: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2002), pp. 983-1006 (p. 986 n. 18).

Martine Meuwese, 'Inaccurate Instructions and Incorrect Interpretations: Errors and Deliberate Discrepancies in Illustrated Prose Lancelot Manuscripts', Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society, 54 (2002), 319-44 (pp. 320, n. 3, 326, n. 15, 334, 342, figs 9, 10).

Alison Stones, ''Mise en page' in the French Lancelot-Grail: The First 150 Years of illustrative Tradition', in A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Cambridge: Brewer: 2003), pp. 125-44 (pp. 129, 131, 137).

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. 221).

Pamela Porter, Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), p. 48.

Douglas Gray, ‘Roos , Sir Richard (c.1410-1482)’, rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37912, accessed 16 Feb 2010]

Elspeth Kennedy, 'The Relationship between Text and Image in three Manuscripts of the Estoire del Saint Graal' in Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field, ed. by Bonnie Wheeler (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2004), pp. 93-100.

Roger Middleton. 'The Manuscripts' in Arthur of the French, ed. by Glyn Burgess and Karen Pratt (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), pp. 8-92 (pp. 79, 85).

Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), p. 69, pl. 59.

La légende du roi Arthur, ed. by Thierry Delcourt (Paris: Bibiothèque nationale de France, 2009), no. 35, p. 121 [exhibition catalogue].

Alison Stones, 'Fabrication et illustration des manuscrits arthuriens', in La légende du roi Arthur, ed. by Thierry Delcourt (Paris: Bibiothèque nationale de France, 2009), 19-30 (p. 24) [exhibition catalogue].

Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 132 [exhibition catalogue].

Ire`ne Fabry-Tehranchi and Catherine Nicolas, L'iconographie du Lancelot-Graal (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021], pp. 16, 20, 28., 68.
Last revised: 04 May 2011


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Joseph of Arimathea preaching

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Joseph praying to God

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Joseph of Arimathea before an altar

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Joseph of Arimathea consecrated by God

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Messenger bringing letters

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Evalac besieging Tholomers

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Joseph speaking to Sarrachine

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Ptolemy offering his sword to Evalac

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Ptolemy offering his sword to Evalac
 
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Ptolemy offering his sword to Evalac
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Joseph of Arimathea injured by a spear

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Joseph of Arimathea injured by a spear
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Joseph of Arimathea injured by a spear
 
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Mordrain and Giseult in bed

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Mordrain and Giseult in bed
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Mordrain and Giseult in bed
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Seraquinted revived by Nasciens

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Seraquinted revived by Nasciens
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Seraquinted revived by Nasciens
 
Mordrain on a rocky island

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Mordrain on a rocky island
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Mordrain addressed by another man

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Mordrain addressed by another man
 
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Nascien being led out of prison

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Nascien being led out of prison
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Nascien being led out of prison
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Knight bringing his son to the duchess

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Knight bringing his son to the duchess
Knight bringing his son to the duchess

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Knight bringing his son to the duchess
 
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Nasciens having a vision

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Nasciens having a vision
 
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Nasciens having a vision
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Nasciens boarding an unmanned ship

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Nasciens boarding an unmanned ship
Nasciens boarding an unmanned ship

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Nasciens boarding an unmanned ship
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Two ships full of heathen knights

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Two ships full of heathen knights
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Celidoine cast adrift

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Celidoine cast adrift
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Celidoine encountering two men

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Celidoine encountering two men
 
Celidoine encountering two men

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Celidoine encountering two men
Messengers asking after Nasciens

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Messengers asking after Nasciens
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Messengers asking after Nasciens
 
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Duchess Flagentine

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Joseph of Arimathea

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Joseph of Arimathea
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Duchess Flagentine and Joseph of Arimathea
 
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Joseph of Arimathea and his followers praying

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Joseph of Arimathea and his followers praying
Joseph of Arimathea and his followers praying

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Joseph of Arimathea and his followers praying
 
Nascien

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Nascien
Nascien

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Nascien at sea

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Nascien at sea
 
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Joseph of Arimathea and the pagan duke

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Joseph of Arimathea and the pagan duke
Joseph of Arimathea and the pagan duke

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Joseph of Arimathea and the pagan duke
 
Joseph disputing with a ruler

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Joseph disputing with a ruler
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Joseph disputing with a ruler
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Joseph thrown into prison

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Joseph thrown into prison
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Joseph thrown into prison

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Joseph thrown into prison
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Mordrains and Duchess Flagentine

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Mordrains and Duchess Flagentine
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Mordrains and Duchess Flagentine
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Crudens strangling his wife

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Crudens strangling his wife
 
Joseph of Arimathea supervising a grave

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Joseph of Arimathea supervising a grave
Crudens strangling his wife

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Crudens strangling his wife
Seven hands from heaven

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Seven hands from heaven
 
Seven hands from heaven

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Seven hands from heaven
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Joseph and companions

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Joseph and companions
 
Saracen temple destroyed

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Saracen temple destroyed
Joseph and companions

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Joseph and companions
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Joseph and companions witnessing an omen

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Joseph and companions witnessing an omen
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Joseph and companions in a castle

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Joseph and companions in a castle
 
Joseph and companions in a castle

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Joseph and companions in a castle
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Joseph at the graves of Chanaam's murdered brothers

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Joseph at the graves of Chanaam's murdered brothers
Joseph at the graves of Chanaam's murdered brothers

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Joseph at the graves of Chanaam's murdered brothers
Joseph with a man on his deathbed

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Joseph with a man on his deathbed
 
Joseph before twelve graves

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Joseph before twelve graves
Joseph with a man on his deathbed

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Joseph with a man on his deathbed
Pieron arriving at an island

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Pieron arriving at an island
 
Pieron arriving at an island

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Pieron arriving at an island
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Joseph of Arimathea

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Joseph of Arimathea
 
Joseph crowning a king

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Joseph crowning a king
Galahad finding Symens

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Galahad finding Symens
Galahad finding Symens

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Building of a church

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Building of a church
Joseph on his deathbed

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Joseph on his deathbed
King supervising a church building; Joseph on his deathbed

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King supervising a church building; Joseph on his deathbed
 
Joseph on his deathbed

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Joseph on his deathbed
Alain bringing the Grail

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Alain bringing the Grail
Joseph on his deathbed

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Joseph on his deathbed
 
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King Alphasein

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King Alphasein
King Alphasein

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King Alphasein
 
King Alphasein

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King Alphasein
Forces of Celidoines destroying those of Sesnes

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Forces of Celidoines destroying those of Sesnes
Forces of Celidoines destroying those of Sesnes

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Forces of Celidoines destroying those of Sesnes
 
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Knight holding the head of a king

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Knight holding the head of a king
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The head in the boiling well
 
Building collapsing on two knights

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Building collapsing on two knights
Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere

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Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere
Lancelot

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Lancelot
 
Naked man

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Naked man
Ape archer

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Ape archer
Jousting

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Jousting
 
Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot

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Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot
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Wise man entering Arthur's banquet hall

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Wise man entering Arthur's banquet hall
 
Wise man entering Arthur's banquet hall

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Wise man entering Arthur's banquet hall
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Galahad

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Galahad
 
Galahad withdrawing a sword

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Galahad withdrawing a sword
Hermit Nascien at Arthur's court

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Hermit Nascien at Arthur's court
Hermit Nascien at Arthur's court

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Hermit Nascien at Arthur's court
 
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Arthur bidding farewell to his knights

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Arthur bidding farewell to his knights
Arthur bidding farewell to his knights

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Arthur bidding farewell to his knights
Knight defeating Bagdemagus

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Knight defeating Bagdemagus
 
Knight defeating Bagdemagus

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Knight defeating Bagdemagus
White Knight and Sir Galahad

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White Knight and Sir Galahad
White Knight and Sir Galahad

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White Knight and Sir Galahad
 
Sir Galahad casting out a fiend

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Sir Galahad casting out a fiend
Sir Galahad casting out a fiend

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Sir Galahad casting out a fiend
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Defeat of Sir Melyas

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Defeat of Sir Melyas
Defeat of Sir Melyas

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Defeat of Sir Melyas
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Galahad given keys to the Maiden's Castle

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Galahad given keys to the Maiden's Castle
Galahad given keys to the Maiden's Castle

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Galahad given keys to the Maiden's Castle
Gawain, Gareth and Ilwayne

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Gawain, Gareth and Ilwayne
 
Gawain, Gareth and Ilwayne

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Gawain, Gareth and Ilwayne
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Duke's daughter bidding farewell to Galahad

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Duke's daughter bidding farewell to Galahad
 
Duke's daughter bidding farewell to Galahad

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Duke's daughter bidding farewell to Galahad
Lancelot asleep in a chapel

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Lancelot asleep in a chapel
Lancelot asleep in a chapel

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Lancelot asleep in a chapel
 
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Sir Percivale arriving at a hermitage

f. 101v
Sir Percivale arriving at a hermitage
Sir Percivale arriving at a hermitage

f. 101v
Sir Percivale arriving at a hermitage
 
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f. 102
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f. 103
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f. 106
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f. 107
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f. 108
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f. 108v
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Sir Lancelot speaking with a hermit

f. 109
Sir Lancelot speaking with a hermit
 
Sir Lancelot speaking with a hermit

f. 109
Sir Lancelot speaking with a hermit
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f. 110
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f. 111
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f. 112
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f. 113
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f. 114
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Sir Gawain riding with Sir Ector de Marys

f. 115
Sir Gawain riding with Sir Ector de Marys
Sir Gawain riding with Sir Ector de Marys

f. 115
Sir Gawain riding with Sir Ector de Marys
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f. 116
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f. 117
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Sir Bors meeting a holy man

f. 118
Sir Bors meeting a holy man
Sir Bors meeting a holy man

f. 118
Sir Bors meeting a holy man
 
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f. 119
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f. 120
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Sir Bors defeating Sir Prydam

f. 120v
Sir Bors defeating Sir Prydam
Sir Bors defeating Sir Prydam

f. 120v
Sir Bors defeating Sir Prydam
 
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f. 122
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f. 123
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Sir Lionel killing a hermit and Sir Colgrevaunce

f. 123v
Sir Lionel killing a hermit and Sir Colgrevaunce
 
Sir Lionel killing a hermit and Sir Colgrevaunce

f. 123v
Sir Lionel killing a hermit and Sir Colgrevaunce
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f. 124
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Sir Galahad wounding Sir Gawain in a tournament

f. 125
Sir Galahad wounding Sir Gawain in a tournament
Sir Galahad wounding Sir Gawain in a tournament

f. 125
Sir Galahad wounding Sir Gawain in a tournament
Galahad, Percivale and Bors in a ship

f. 125v
Galahad, Percivale and Bors in a ship
 
Galahad, Percivale and Bors in a ship

f. 125v
Galahad, Percivale and Bors in a ship
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f. 126
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f. 127
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God commanding Eve to love Adam

f. 127v
God commanding Eve to love Adam
God commanding Eve to love Adam

f. 127v
God commanding Eve to love Adam
 
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

f. 128
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
Adam and Eve

f. 128
Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

f. 128
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
 
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Sir Percivale finding a letter

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Sir Percivale finding a letter
Sir Percivale finding a letter

f. 130v
Sir Percivale finding a letter
 
Sir Galahad, Percivale and Bors killing hostile knights

f. 131
Sir Galahad, Percivale and Bors killing hostile knights
Sir Galahad, Percivale and Bors killing hostile knights

f. 131
Sir Galahad, Percivale and Bors killing hostile knights
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Sir Galahad

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Sir Galahad
Sir Lancelot

f. 133v
Sir Lancelot
Galahad and Lancelot

f. 133v
Galahad and Lancelot
 
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White Knight

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White Knight
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White Knight
 
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Sir Galahad and the dying Mordrains

f. 136v
Sir Galahad and the dying Mordrains
Sir Galahad and the dying Mordrains

f. 136v
Sir Galahad and the dying Mordrains
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Silver table carried to Sarras

f. 138v
Silver table carried to Sarras
 
Silver table carried to Sarras

f. 138v
Silver table carried to Sarras
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f. 139
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King Arthur

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King Arthur
King Arthur dictating to a scribe

f. 140
King Arthur dictating to a scribe
King Arthur dictating to a scribe

f. 140
King Arthur dictating to a scribe
 
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f. 141
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Gareth and Gaheris with a wounded man

f. 142v
Gareth and Gaheris with a wounded man
Gareth and Gaheris with a wounded man

f. 142v
Gareth and Gaheris with a wounded man
 
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Lancelot in conversation with a lady

f. 146
Lancelot in conversation with a lady
Lancelot

f. 146
Lancelot
 
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Lancelot being offered a glove

f. 150
Lancelot being offered a glove
Lancelot being offered a glove

f. 150
Lancelot being offered a glove
 
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Sir Patrice eating poisoned apples

f. 151v
Sir Patrice eating poisoned apples
 
Sir Patrice eating poisoned apples

f. 151v
Sir Patrice eating poisoned apples
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Mordred accusing the queen of treason

f. 152v
Mordred accusing the queen of treason
 
Mordred accusing the queen of treason

f. 152v
Mordred accusing the queen of treason
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Arthur discovering the corpse of the Maid of Astola

f. 153v
Arthur discovering the corpse of the Maid of Astola
 
Arthur discovering the corpse of the Maid of Astolat

f. 153v
Arthur discovering the corpse of the Maid of Astolat
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Guinevere kneeling before Sir Lancelot

f. 155
Guinevere kneeling before Sir Lancelot
Guinevere kneeling before Sir Lancelot

f. 155
Guinevere kneeling before Sir Lancelot
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Sir Lancelot fighting Sir Mados

f. 156v
Sir Lancelot fighting Sir Mados
Sir Lancelot fighting Sir Mados

f. 156v
Sir Lancelot fighting Sir Mados
 
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Lancelot defending the queen

f. 158v
Lancelot defending the queen
Lancelot defending the queen

f. 158v
Lancelot defending the queen
Knights grieving over the dead

f. 159
Knights grieving over the dead
 
Knights grieving over the dead

f. 159
Knights grieving over the dead
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Arthur in council with his knights

f. 161
Arthur in council with his knights
Arthur in council with his knights

f. 161
Arthur in council with his knights
 
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f. 161v
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Ownership inscriptions

f. 162
Ownership inscriptions
Ownership inscriptions

f. 162
Ownership inscriptions
 
Ruled page

f. 162v
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