General
| Library: | British Library |
| Sheflmark: | Lansdowne 229 |
| Information source: |
Physical description: InformationSource object (1) Segmentation: InformationSource object (1) |
| Described by: | hgrange |
Bindings
| Description: | Red morocco over pasteboards, with gold tooling (British Museum). |
| Date : | None |
| Title on binding: | W. CAMDEN / MISCELLANEA // BRIT. MUS. // LANSDOWNE / 229 |
| Cover material: | Material object (6) |
| Board material: | Material object (9) |
| Fastening: | |
| Chaining: | |
| Edges: | |
| Front end papers : | |
| End papers : |
Bibliography
| Reference | , Bibliographie des romans et nouvelles en prose française antérieurs à 1500 (Geneva: Droz, 1954) |
| Notes | |
| Reference | ., Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in The British Museum, Vol I. (London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1883) |
| Notes | |
| Reference | , 'Le Roman de Troie en prose dans la version du MS. Rouen, Bibl. mun. O.33: "membra disjecta" d'un manuscrit plus ancien?', Romania, 109 (1988), 502-39 |
| Notes | esp. pp. 508-9 |
| Reference | La Légende de Troie en France au moyen âge (Basel; Tubingen: Francke Verlag, 1996) |
| Notes | p. 499 |
MS Parts
| Title | Date | Place | Dedicatee |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Troie fragment] | ?1275 to 1325 | Italy | none |
MS Part Library: British Library
General
| Shelfmark: | Lansdowne 229 |
| MS Part Title: | [Troie fragment] |
| Ms Part Folios: | 1 folios |
| Page layout: |
Material
| MS Part Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | na |
| Condition: | Good quality parchment. The ink has rubbed in places on the recto side, but most of the text remains legible. |
Date Information
| Date(s): | ?1275 to 1325 |
| Notes: | 'XIVth cent.' (Ward 1883, I:61; cf. Woledge 1954, 131); 'fin du XIIIe siècle' (Vielliard 1988, 508; cf. Jung 1996, 499). |
Hand
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Folio(s): | From 164ra to 164vb |
| Date(s): | ?1275 to 1325 |
| Scribe description: | A meticulously copied rotunda in black ink, with the following traits: single-compartment 'a' (open upper bow); 'h' with a limb barely descending below the baseline; 'i' often ticked; round 'r' after bows; straight and round 's' in final position; 'u' in initial position; dotted 'y' in proper nouns only; 3-shaped 'z'. Scarce abbreviations appear only at the end of lines. Tironian 'et' is uncrossed. |
Folios: 164ra - 164vb
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164ra - 164vb
(§Jung 1996, 499-Jung 1996, 499) Roman de Troie, Prose 3 (N/A)
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