General
| Library: | British Library |
| Sheflmark: | Royal 20 B VIII |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (6) |
| Described by: | dschoenaers |
Bindings
| Description: | Modern British Museum Royal binding, cloth and leather on wooden boards. Spine red leather with gold-tooling . |
| Date : | 1970 |
| Title on binding: | Lancelot / du Lac |
| Cover material: | Material object (13) |
| Board material: | Material object (3) |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers (7): | Five paper and two vellum flyleaves. The two vellum flyleaves are taken from a 14th-c. Latin missal and contain part of the 'Proprium Sanctorum' (BL Catalogue of Illuminated MSS). |
| End papers (5): | One vellum and three paper flyleaves. On the recto side of the vellum flyleaf are lines from a breviary in Latin in a 14th-c. hand (BL Catalogue of Illuminated MSS). |
Digitisations
| Link (subject to external change and may not function consistently.) | |
| Colour? | Colour |
| Completeness | Partial |
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Bibliography
| Reference | 'British Library Online Catalogue', (2014) <http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/> [accessed 11 December 2014] |
| Notes | |
| Reference | 'Arthurian Fiction in Medieval Europe: Narratives and Manuscripts', (2012) <http://www.arthurianfiction.org> |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , 'Les manuscrits du Lancelot en prose (deuxième article)', Romania, 84 (1963), 28-60 |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , 'Manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England and Wales: Some Books and their Owners', in Carol Dover (ed.), A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 219-35 |
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MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Part 1] | c. 1250 to 1300 | England |
MS Part Library: British Library
General
| Shelfmark: | Royal 20 B VIII |
| MS Part Title: | [Part 1] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 105 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Folios are discoloured and worn. Medium to lower grade vellum with many substantial irregularities (ff. 23, 24, 26) Irregularities in the writing space (e.g. f. 50). The edge of the skin coincides with the edge of the folio, holes and stitches disturb the written area. After restoration, the folios have been attached separately to the modern binding. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | c. 1250 to 1300 |
| Notes: | The BL Catalogue of Illuminated MSS has 2nd quarter of the 13th c. The Lancelot-Graal project suggests second half of the 13th c. Arthurian Fiction dates the MS c. 1275 to 1300. The text is copied above top line, which supports a date in the second quarter of the 13th c. or earlier. The writing,, a cursiva antiquior with insular traits (long-stem 'r', looped 'd', tall 'a'), may point towards a slightly later date (straight and round 's' in final position, two-compartment 'a' with open upper compartment and double-lobe 'a', looped l's). |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From f. 3ra to f. 108vb |
| Date(s): | c. 1250 to 1300 |
| Scribe description: | The hand in ff. 62ra to 78ra is a cursiva antiquior (Anglicana) with two-compartment 'a' with closed upper compartment as well as tall, double-lobe 'a', 'b', 'h', 'l' with looped ascenders, looped 'd', 'f' and straight 's' descend below the baseline, 'g' with exceptionally large lower lobe, diacritic on 'i' in minim group, long-stem 'r', sometimes straight 's' in final position, but mostly round (trailing) 's', vertical stroke of 't' does not extend above the headstroke, 3-like 'z'. Ligatures: 'st'. Fusion of 'de' Abbreviations include nasal bar, apostrophe, superscript vowels. Noted in the lower margin of f. 77r this hand notes 'adiutorium meum a d(omi)no'. This hand may also be the corrector, since there are no interventions in this section of the text. Other hands in ff. 3r-59v, f. 60r, ff. 78ra-108v. |
Folios: f. 3ra - f. 108va
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f. 3ra - f. 108va
(§LXX-CV,38) Agravain and preparation to the Quest (long cyclic version)
- Termination object (5): text omitted after this segment
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