Add MS 32125, ff 59-245

This part contains 2 texts:

ff. 59r-205v, Estoire del Saint Graal (part of the 'Vulgate' cycle, see Sommers 1909), in Old French prose. Rubric in red ('Ici comence...') has been mostly cut away in binding. Incipit of the prologue (f. 59r): 'Cil qui la hautesce e la seignurie de si haute estorie com est cele del Graal met en estrit par le comandement del grant mestre mande tut primerement salutz'. Incipit of the text (f. 59r): 'Il avint apres la passion ihesu crist vij e xvij anz que io lui plus pechers de toz les autres pecheors'. One leaf, of which a stub now remains, has been removed between ff. 63 and 64. Explicit before lacuna (f. 63v): 'Ne ne se recordoit pas qil out fet peche dont chare morteux se poeit garder qe sulement celui puis qil premerement resteucha'. Incipit after lacuna (f. 64r): 'e les larrons vif as larrons les quises brisoient e lui de une lance fesoient feruri il ne nout mie tant atendre qe li felon li desloil qui le mestreient le despendissent a lor ordes mains aincois vint a pilat'. Explicit of the text (f. 205v): 'Si commence mi sire Robert de boron cele branche en tele manere'. Colophon in red and blue (f. 205v): 'Ici finist lestorie de ioseph darimathie & de son lignage. & de Nacien & de son lignage. Si commence le livre de Merlin. Mult fu irrez l enemis' (ff. 59r-205v);

ff. 206r-245v, Robert de Boron, Merlin in Old French prose. Space has been left at the top of the page, possibly for an illustration that has not been added. Incipit (f. 206r): 'Mult fu irrez li enemis quant nostre sire ot este en enfer & il en ot gete adam & eve & les autres tant com li plout & quant li enemi virent ce'. Explicit (f. 245v): 'si reparlerai de artors e prendrai les paroles de li e de sa vie a sa elecioun e a son sacree'.

Decoration: (ff. 59r-245v):

Line-drawn marginal grotesques in red (ff. 127r, 139v, 142v, 170v). Puzzle initials in red and blue, with red and blue pen flourishing (ff. 59r, 69v, 74r, etc.), sometimes inhabited (e.g. 158v, 191r, 200r). Added drawings of birds (f. 171v), trees (f. 205v), and a fleur-de-lis (f. 245v). Initials in red or blue throughout, with pen-flourishing in the other colour.