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Add MS 10293
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Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
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Contents:
The prose Lancelot-Grail continued (Sommer, Vulgate Version (1909-1916), vols III-V). This part of the cycle is sometimes known as the Lancelot-propre or Lancelot du Lac, as it deals mainly with the courtly exploits of Lancelot :
ff. 2r-129r: Lancelot’s birth, education, and arrival at Camelot; the deeds of Arthur’s knights; from the second folio, incipit, 'apparisans. Ore v[ous] apparellies car v[ous] vienres avoekes moi', explicit, 'le roi et sa c[om]paignie sen sont ale par petites iornees en b[re]taigne' (Sommer, vol. III);
ff. 129r-254r: The journey to Sorelois and the Conte de la Charrete (beginning on f. 180v), which retells the Chrétien de Troyes’ story of Lancelot’s rescue of Guinevere from the evil fairy Meleagant, incipit, ‘En cheste partie dist li contes que Galehot se partie de la cort le roy artu', explicit 'et retorne a parler de son frere Agravain' (Sommer, vol. IV);
ff. 254r-383v: The adventures of Agravain and the other knights, and the early life of Galahad, beginning ‘Chi endroit dist li contes que quant Agrevains se fu parties de sez compaignons…’ (Sommer, vol. V).
[f. 1: The first folio of this manuscript, with the opening line, the opening line of the Lancelot-propre, ‘En la marche de gaule et de la petite bertaigne’, was detached in the 19th century and bound with Add MS 10294, f. 1: order as Add MS 10294/1].
Additional MS 10292, Additional MS 10293, Additional MS10294 and Additional MS10294/1 were formerly part of the same volume.
Decoration:
436 miniatures in colours on gold grounds, within pink, blue and red borders with penwork decoration in white, some framed in silver (to f. 32v), each above an initial in gold on a blue and rose ground with penwork decoration in white. Initials in gold on blue and rose grounds with pen-flourishing. Numerous initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour and pen-flourished partial borders in blue and red extending the length of the page along the edge of each column. Rubrics in red added above each miniature (except ff. 344-351). Instructions to rubricators at the bottom of pages, partially erased (e.g., f. 300v).
The subjects of the miniatures are:
f. 2r: King Ban of Benoic's steward surrendering his castle to Claudas.
f. 3v: King Ban on horseback watches his castle of Trèbes burning.
f. 4r: King Ban dies, with his wife Elaine beside him and the infant Lancelot abandoned on the ground.
f. 4v: King Claudas attacks the castle of Gannes, while Queen Evaine flees with her sons, Bohort and Lionel.
f. 5r: Queen Evaine enters a convent, and her hair is cropped.
f. 5v: The Lady of the Lake takes Lancelot, while his mother laments.
f. 6v: Claudas escapes through a window from Pharien, the steward of Gannes. Pharien's wife emprisoned in a tower, asking a man to take a message to Claudas.
f. 7r: Pharien and Claudas celebrate victory.
f. 7v: King Claudas talking to his son, Dorin.
f. 9v: Lancelot is taught by his master to hunt a bird with a bow and arrow.
f. 11v: A monk visits Queen Elaine of Benoic in a convent.
f. 13r: The monk reproaches King Arthur for not helping his vassals.
f. 16v: Saraide and her servants carry the two children, Lionel and Bohort out of Gannes. King Claudas mourns his son, who was killed by Lionel and Bohort.
f. 17v: Pharien's army besieges Claudas' castle.
f. 23v: Lancelot talks to Lionel and Bohort, while the Lady of the Lake listens.
f. 26v: Leonce de Palerne and Lambegue, the nephew of Pharien, riding.
f. 27r: King Claudas besieges the city of Gaunes.
f. 30v: Lambegue and Pharien are reunited with their young protégés Bohort and Lionel.
f. 31r: Queen Elaine praying in the convent.
f. 32v: Lancelot hunting, with a large stag being carried by two stewards.
f. 35r: King Arthur and his companions riding out of the castle at Camelot.
f. 38r: Guinevere, holding a dog, takes the hand of the kneeling Lancelot.
f. 39r: Lancelot on a white horse with white armour, lifts the flap of a tent with his sword and speaks to the knight inside.
f. 45r: The brother of Aiglin des Vaux gives King Arthur a letter.
f. 46r: The lord of the Douloureuse Garde attacks King Arthur while he is resting with his companions beside a river.
f. 46v: Gawain and his companions rowing to a castle on the Ile of Hombre.
f. 47r: Lancelot embraces the maiden who tells him Gawain is prisoner at Douloureuse Garde.
f. 48r: The white knight (Lancelot) encounters a hermit at the edge of a forest.
f. 50r: The Lancelot takes leave of Gawain.
f. 50v: Lancelot and his squire meet a maiden who tells them about an assembly.
f. 51r: Lancelot meets a knight pulling a man tied by the neck behind his horse.
f. 52r: Gawain meets a Lancelot who is injured and hidden in a cart.
f. 52v: The Lady of Nohaut speaks to the white knight in the cart (Lancelot), uncovers him and asks him to join her party.
f. 53v: The battle between the red knight (Lancelot) and the King of the Hundred Knights at the tournament of Godoarre.
f. 54r: The knight in the cart is recognised by the Lady of Nohaut who rides up to him.
f. 54v: Gawain returns a horse to Brun (Brehus).
f. 55r: Lancelot and his physician come to a hermitage.
f. 55v: Gawain, Brun and two maidens arrive at the castle of Nohaut.
f. 56r: Lancelot and his physician leave the hermitage of Plessis.
f. 57r: Gawain and his companions rescue Gaheriet on the bridge to a castle.
f. 58v: Lancelot arrives at the river-crossing to a fortress.
f. 59r: King Arthur asking a bishop and clergy at Camelot to interpret his dreams.
f. 59v: Lancelot and a knight errant in a forest.
f. 60r: A messenger kneels at Arthur's table and gives him a petition from Galehaut.
f. 60v: A knight meets Queen Guinevere beside a river and tells her of Lancelot’s arrival.
f. 62r: Lancelot meets a man with his squire returning from the hunt and carrying a roebuck on his saddle.
f. 62v: A messenger from the Lady of Malehaut gives King Arthur a message.
f. 66v: Lancelot in prison, with the Lady of Malehaut and her cousin at the grill, looking at his wounds.
f. 67v: King Arthur is criticised by Gawain for being distracted by a squire at a banquet.
f. 68r: Lancelot talks to the Lady of Malehaut but will not reveal his identity.
f. 70v: The Lady of Malehaut sends a messenger Lancelot, with and a squire carrying two spears.
f. 73v: A battle between Arthur’s knights and Lancelot disguised as Galehaut.
f. 76v: Lancelot meets Guinevere while Galehaut and his steward talk to her two ladies.
f. 78r: Guinevere kisses Lancelot for the first time with Galehaut watching.
f. 79v: Galehaut and Lancelot ride to Sorelois.
f. 80r: A young maiden, Lore de Cardueil serves wine to Arthur at a banquet.
f. 81v: Gawain and Sagremor recognise each other during a battle.
f. 82r: Gawain and his four companions, Sagremor, Yvain, Kay and Giflet meet a knight (Hector) lamenting beside the Spring of the Pine, with a shield and four lances around him.
f. 83r: Hector is beaten with a stick by a dwarf, Grodain at the Spring of the Pine; Gawain sees Hector’s lady-friend having her hair done by a maid in a pavilion.
f. 84v: A messenger from the Lady of Roestoc gives a message to the dwarf Grodain and Gawain.
f. 85r. Hector fights with a group of knights at a bridge.
f. 87r: Gawain raises his sword over the knight Segurade who is kneeling.
f. 88v: Gawain talks to Hélain de Caningues.
f. 89r: The Lady of Roestoc brings the dwarf Groadain to Arthur and Guinevere.
f. 90v: Guinevere is given the shield that was broken in half, sent by the Lady of the Lake.
f. 91v: Guinevere, her ladies and a squire help to disarm a knight who is wounded.
f. 92r: Gawain riding out in the Forest of Brequehan.
f. 92v: Gawain takes off the helmet of a knight who has cut off his horse's head, while a maiden escapes through a door.
f. 93r: Gawain lifts the covers from a knight (Agravain) who lies ill in bed while a maiden sits at his feet.
f. 93v: The maiden takes away Gawain's sword which he is using to defend himself against the other knights; Mordred laments beside the bed of Agravain.
f. 95r: A joust between Gawain and the red knight.
f. 96r: Hector almost tramples on a maiden holding a wounded knight on the ground; the lady rides with Hector and tells him her tale.
f. 97r: Hector, Guinas and the two damsels ride to a hermitage.
f. 98r: Hector interrogates a clerk who is bringing food and wine to a hermitage.
f. 100r: Hector attacks a castle gate with an axe.
f. 102r: Hector strikes down Marganor with his lance.
f. 107r: Galehaut comforts Lancelot, who is ill in bed, pining for Guinevere. Gawain speaks to a priest in white robes.
f. 116r: Hector talks to his host, who is keeping him imprisoned.
f. 118r: Lionel kneels before Queen Guinevere and gives her a letter from Lancelot and Galehaut.
f. 118v: Gawain speaks to the hermit of the Red Mountain.
f. 119r: Hector asks Gawain’s squire if he has seen a knight riding to Sorelois.
f. 120r: Hector and Gawain, riding together, meet a maiden on a horse.
f. 124v: Galehaut asks for Lancelot, who has gone mad, to be released..
f. 129r: Lancelot lifting Galehaut, who has fallen from his horse.
f. 130r: Lancelot and Galehaut watch his castle, L’Orgueilleuse Garde, falling down.
f. 131r: The maiden Elice, with thirty knights and her old companion, Bertelai, enters Camelot and gives Arthur a message from her lady, the false Guinevere.
f. 131v: A cleric reads the letter from the false Guinevere to Arthur and his court.
f. 134r: Galehaut asks the advice of clerics in a chapel, with Lancelot standing beside him.
f. 136: The cleric Helie interprets Galehaut’s dreams.
f. 138r: Helie reads and conjures signs for Galehaust in a chapel.
f. 138v: Helie is conjuring and a hand raises a fiery sword to strike him and Galehaut.
f. 139v: Galehaut and Lancelot speak while knights wait outside.
f. 140r: Galehaut appoints one of his lords to take care of his properties while he goes to Arthur's court.
f. 140v: Galehaut has Baudemagus swear loyalty to him.
f. 141v: King Arthur greets Lancelot and Guinevere welcomes Galehaut (the rubric says 'Arthur') at Carduel for Christmas.
f. 142r: Lancelot and Meleagant jousting.
f. 143r: The false Guinevere and fourteen maidens at King Arthur’s court.
f. 143v: King Tholome captures Arthur and his companions in a forest.
f. 144v: Arthur is held captive by the false Guinevere at Carmelide.
f. 145r: Galehaut advises Gawain to accept the crown in front of Queen Guinevere.
f. 146r: Galehaut accuses Arthur of condemning Guinevere without a proper trial.
f. 146v: Lancelot throws down his mantle, challenging Arthur for his judgement of Guinevere.
f. 147v: King Arthur receives Lancelot and Bertelai's gloves as a challenge to fight over Guinevere's honour.
f. 148r: Galehaut and Arthur discuss the tournament between Lancelot and the three knights on the side of the false Guinevere.
f. 148v: Guinevere, her guards and the false Guinevere watch Lancelot facing Bertelai and his knights while Galehaut and Arthur debate the fairness of the tournament.
f. 149r: Lancelot ties his horse to a tree and attacks a second knight, Gladonas de Lamballe, with his sword.
f. 150r: Lancelot is about to kill a third knight, Agloadas, but Guinevere asks him to spare his opponent’s life.
f. 150v: Gawain and the court ask Arthur to pardon Guinevere but Bertelai wishes to have her exiled.
f. 151r: King Arthur entrusts Guinevere to Galehaut before his court.
f. 152r: Arthur is told by the Pope to return to his wive and leave the false Guinevere.
f. 153r: Arthur goes to confession with the hermit Amistant.
f. 153v: Arthur and his court attend mass in a hermitage.
f. 154r: The false Guinevere lies ill with Bertelai beside her and she confesses her deception to King Arthur.
f. 154v: Lancelot and Galehaut advise the Queen to return to King Arthur.
f. 155r: The lords of Carmelide beg the Queen for mercy.
f. 155v: King Galehaut returns Guinevere to King Arthur (the rubric incorrectly has Arthur returning Guinevere to Galehaut)
f. 156r: Lancelot and Galehaut speak to the Queen in her chamber.
f. 156v: Lancelot raises the Queen, who is begging him to return to court.
f. 157r: Carradoc le Grand carries Gawain off on his horse.
f. 157v: The Duke of Clarence speaking to Galeschin at the white tower.
f. 158v: Yvain meeting Driant, the fettered knight .
f. 159r: Lancelot rescues Driant from the litter while a maiden dressed in black watches.
f. 159v: Lancelot returns Driant to his castle.
f. 160r: Yvain fights with robbers who have attacked a squire and his family in their chateau.
f. 160v: Yvain rescues a maiden hanging in an oak tree by her hair.
f. 161r: Yvain fights against five knights of the pavilion who tied up the maiden.
f. 161v: Lancelot rescues Yvain from the knights of the pavilion.
f. 162r: Galehaut uncovers Lionel’s arms under his cloak.
f. 162v: Galeschin rescues a maiden and a young man from a knight.
f. 163r: The maiden leads Galeschin and his squire through the forest.
f. 163v: Two knights are wounded by Galeschin and the third begs for mercy at the castle of Pintadol.
f. 164v: A maiden on a black horse leads Lancelot and Yvain through a forest on the way to Pintadol.
f. 165r: Lancelot and the maiden at the Dolorous Tower or Escalon le Tenebreux.
f. 165v: Caradoc le Grand prevents his mother from killing Gawain to avenge her brother.
f. 166v: Gawain is imprisoned in a dungeon and Caradoc’s lady offers him help through the window of the castle.
f. 167r: Galeschin and his squire ride to the Chapel of Morgain.
f. 167v: Lancelot, Galehaut and the maiden arrive at the chapel.
f. 169r: A lady of Morgain curses Lancelot, injuring him with her sword.
f. 170r: Keu d’Estraus (Kay) playing chess with a damsel (the rubric says the Duke of Clarence and a maiden) and a squire tells him that the enchantment is broken.
f. 170v: Morgain talks to Lancelot whom she has imprisoned.
f. 171r: Lancelot rescues and knight and a lady from a river.
f. 171v: Yvain fights against ten knights to defend the bridge of the Douloureuse Tour.
f. 172r: Galeschin fights against a knight on the causeway to the Douloureuse Tour.
f. 172v: Carrados and Lancelot fight with swords.
f. 174r: Lancelot breaks his sword while fighting Carrados.
f. 174v: Arthur invests Caradoc’s lady with the keys of Dolorous Tower.
f. 175r: Morgain takes away Guinevere’s ring from the sleeping Lancelot.
f. 176v: Galeholt fights with ten knights who are trying to take back Lancelot’s shield
f. 177r: Galeholt and his squires ask a shepherd where they can find shelter.
f. 177v: Gawain strikes down the Knight of the Causeway
f. 178r: Lionel meets a maiden who gives him sad news about Lancelot.
f. 178v: A maiden begs Lionel to spare the life of the knight who is suspected of killing Lancelot.
f. 179r: Gawain helps up the Knight of the Causeway, whom he has struck with his lance,
f. 180r: Galehaut and Lionel ride through a forest towards Arthur’s court.
f. 180v: The Lady of the Lake and her squire find the mad Lancelot lying in the forest of Tintagel.
f. 181v: Keu leads the Queen through the forest.
f. 182: Lancelot, wounded, rides Gawain’s horse.
f. 183r: Lancelot rides in a cart driven by a dwarf and people throw mud at him.
f. 184r: A naked Lancelot breaks the lance of the perilous bed.
f. 185v: Lancelot resists the lady temptress.
f. 186r: The Knight of the Causeway bars the way to Lancelot and the lady temptress. Lancelot has beaten the knight and takes Guinevere’s comb.
f. 187r: Lancelot lifts the lid of the grave of his ancestor Galaad.
f. 187v: Lancelot sits at the burning grave of Simeon.
f. 188r: Lancelot defeats two knights with his lance.
f. 188v: Lancelot dines with a lord and is told by his son about a brave knight.
f. 189r: Lancelot fights the guard of the Pas des Perrons.
f. 189v: Lancelot fights in the camp of the black knights.
f. 190r: Gawain fighting a knight of the pavilion who has stolen a maiden's girdle and purse.
f. 190v: Gawain riding with the maiden he rescued.
f. 191r: Gawain's opponent falls.
f. 191v: A knight takes the maiden riding with Gawain prisoner.
f. 193r: Fergus cuts the head off Gawain's horse with his sword.
f. 193v: Gawain in the water, fighting the knight Sephar while people watch from windows at the Pont Perdu.
f. 194r: Gawain defeats Sephar le Roux.
f. 194v: Lancelot is insulted by a knight at dinner.
f. 195r: Lancelot decapitates the knight who insulted him and gives it to the sister of Meléagant.
f. 195v: Lancelot is attacked by people on foot.
f. 196r: Lancelot crosses the Pont de l’Epée..
f. 197v: Lancelot battles Meléagant. in front of the castle where Guinevere is imprisoned.
f. 198r: Baudemagus pleads with Guinevere who turns away from Lancelot kneeling before her.
f. 198v: Lancelot in prison, trying to kill himself with a sword as he believes the Queen is dead, but he is prevented by his guards.
f. 199r: The Queen and Lancelot are reconciled.
f. 199v: Lancelot breaks the window grill to climb into the Queen's chamber. Lancelot lies with Guinevere (the image has been rubbed away).
f. 200r: Lancelot fights Meléagant before a castle, watched by Guinevere.
f. 200v: Gawain meets Lancelot’s companions returning from the ‘Pont sous l’eau’ (the Underwater Bridge).
f. 202v: Lancelot performs marvellous feats in the tournament of Pomeglai.
f. 203v: Lancelot is emprisoned in a tower, and the daughter of Baudemagus comes in a boat to rescue him.
f. 204v: Lancelot standing beside Meliagant, whose head he has cut off.
f. 205v: The knight Margonde becomes Lancelot’s captive.
f. 206r: Lancelot defeats Meliadus le Noir.
f. 207r: Lancelot wins a tournament before the Chateau des Pucelles (Castle of the Maidens).
f. 208r: Margonde gives himself up to Guinevere, who is seated with her ladies.
f. 210r: The Lord of the Blanc Chateau (White Castle) and his companion knight surrender to the damsel of Hungerford.
f. 210v: The damsel of Hungerford and Bohort are besieged in his castle, and she kneels before him.
f. 211r: Bohort strikes down the nephew of Galindé.
f. 212r: Bohort fights one of Galindé’s knights, watched by a maiden on a horse.
f. 213r: Bohort strikes Galindés' helmet with his sword.
f. 214r: Galindé gives himself up to his niece, the damsel of Hungerford, presenting her with his sword.
f. 214v: Bohort bids farewell to Saraide, the messenger of the Lady of the Lake.
f. 215v: Bohort frees a maiden who shackled in irons.
f. 216v: Bohort's companion tries to remove the sword from the maimed knight's hand, while Bohort and the maiden watch.
f. 217v: Bohort wins the tournament at the Chateau de Marche.
f. 218r: The twelve knights are at a feast, and King Brangoire’s daughter asks for a reward.
f. 219v: Brangoire’s daughter gives Bohort a jewel as a memento.
f. 220r: Bohort rescues Bénigne de Glocedon from her attackers.
f. 221v: Lancelot meets a damsel in distress.
f. 222v: Lancelot rides with Saraide and his companions, transporting the litter containing Galehaut's body to the Joyeuse Garde.
f. 223r: Lancelot faces up to a knight who accuses Meliagant's sister of treachery.
f. 224r: A black knight, Griffon du Maupas, lends Lancelot his arms.
f. 226v: Lancelot bearing black arms talks to King Bademagus.
f. 227r: Lancelot defeats the knight Argondras le Roux.
f. 228v: Bohort the Exile attacks the knights who have imprisoned his master, Lambegue.
f. 229v: The damsel of Hungerford kneels before the table where Bohort, Lambegue and companions are seated.
f. 230r: Patrides kneels before King Bademagus, announcing the death of his son Meleagant; Bohort the Exile taking Queen Guinevere captive.
f. 231v: Sagremor fights against the knight of the pavilion.
f. 232v: Sagremor rides over the dwarf who is guarding the Maiden of the pavilion.
f. 233r: Sagremor decapitaties a knight who is seated with a maiden and three other knights in a pavilion.
f. 234v: A combat between Dodinel and Malruc le Roux.
f. 235r: An old woman leads Lancelot and they meet Griffon du Maupas, who demands that he give up his arms.
f. 236r: Lancelot, unarmed and wounded, meets the damsel of Estrangorre on a mule; Dodinel fully armed, has fallen into a river and is holding onto a bridge, he is mocked by a passer-by in country attire .
f. 236v: Guinevere and her companions bring the wounded Dodinel back to Camelot in a litter.
f. 237v: Gawain before the black cross bids his companions to search the wood for eight days.
f. 239v: Agloval meets the wounded knight of Roguedon.
f. 240r: Gawain about to cut off the head of Mathamas, who begs for mercy.
f. 240v: Hector fights the knight who wounded Dodinel on the plank bridge.
f. 241v: Gawain uses his helmet to fetch water from a spring, and speaks to Tanaguis’s lady.
f. 242v: Hector fights in the tournament of the Chateau du Moulin (Castle of the Windmill)
f. 243r: Gawain is attacked by the twelve swords in the Cimitière Périlleux (Perilous Cemetry)..
f. 244r: Gawain burns his hands trying to rescue a lady immersed in a marble tub of boiling water.
f. 244v: Gawain is seated at a feast at Corbenic and a maiden carries in the Grail.
f. 245r: Gawain on the Lit Périlleux at the Palais Adventureux of Corbenic, is wounded through his shield by a lance.
f. 245v: A combat between Gawain and a knight of Corbenic.
f. 246r: Gawain is driven in a cart with a thin knight on a horse whipped by an old woman.
f. 246v: Hector meets a dwarf in a forest.
f. 247v: Hector battles two black lions at the entrance to a cave and cuts off the front paws of one of them.
f. 248v: Yvain meets a maiden in a forest.
f. 249v: Mordred rides without a helmet.
f. 250v: Mordred fights with the knight of the pavilion.
f. 251r: Agravain stops at the Montaigne aux Misérables, where a knight and a maiden are mourning beside the body of their brother.
f. 252v: Sornehan rises from his bed to take up arms.
f. 253v: Guerrehet meets a peasant, who flees, leaving his donkey behind.
f. 255r: Guerrehet defends the old knight’s castle.
f. 255v: Guerrehet meets five maidens who are seated at a table beside a fountain.
f. 257r: Guerrehet encounters a knight who is carrying off a maiden from her mother.
f. 257v: Guerrehet strikes the head of the knight to free the maiden.
f. 258r: The lady and her daughter ask Guerrehet to dine with them.
f. 259r: A servant informs the lady that her husband is plotting against the two knights, Guerrehet and Sagremor. Sagremor strikes his host, the disloyal knight, who falls under the table.
f. 259v: Guerrehet and Sagremor come upon twelve pavilions with four swords and ten lances leaning against each one.
f. 260r: Guerrehet and his horse eat in a pavilion.
f. 260v: The maiden of the pavilion is dragged by the hair from Guerrehet's bed by her husband.
f. 261r: The maiden of the pavilion enters a convent of White Nuns and has her hair cut short.
f. 261v: Guerrehet and Sornehaut joust on top of a hill.
f. 262r: Gaheriet meets the daughter of the Count of Valingues on a pony in a forest.
f. 263v: Gaheriet and the count’s daughter rid up to the dwarf of the pavilion.
f. 264r: Gaheriet kills a knight and rescues the dwarf, Brandelis.
f. 265v: Gaheriet and Guidam are exhausted from fighting.
f. 266r: Gaheriet greets the maiden with the mirror, who is combing her hair on her bed.
f. 266v: Gaheriet and Sornehan both lie down, exhausted from fighting.
f. 267r: The three brothers, Gaheriet, Gueherres and Agravain, meet and embrace.
f. 268v: A duke gives the three brothers food at his castle.
f. 269v: The three brothers win a battle.
f. 270v: Arthur's court grieve over the false news of Lancelot's death.
f. 271r: Queen Guinevere, Lionel and Bohort mourning Lancelot.
f. 271v: Queen Guinevere laments the departure of Lionel and Bohort.
f. 272r: Guinevere dreams that Lancelot and a beautiful maiden meet King Arthur.
f. 272v: Quinevere gives her cousin Elizabeth a message for the Lady of the Lake.
f. 273v: Lancelot, riding with the old lady who has cured him, meets the damsel of Vespez.
f. 274v: Lancelot and the old lady meet Amable and his brother Carinadam (Carmadan) eating with two ladies at a table near a spring.
f. 275r: Lancelot lies poisoned in bed and is cared for by Amable.
f. 276v: Lionel gives Guinevere a small box with Lancelot's hair inside.
f. 277v: Lionel berates Lancelot, who is lying in bed ill.
f. 278v: Amant vows her love to Lancelot.
f. 279v: Lancelot is greeted with ceremony at the castle of Duke Calles’s son.
f. 280r: Lancelot and Lionel attend mass together.
f. 280v: Hector arrives at the mound of the forest of Terrique.
f. 281v: The Queen of Rohestam, Morgain and Sybille ride out with companions.
f. 282r: Lancelot imprisoned in a castle, speaks to his guardian, the daughter of the Duke of Rocedon.
f. 283r: Lancelot asleep in a pavilion, having killed its occupant, who lies outside.
f. 284r: Lancelot fights in the tournament of King Baudemagus.
f. 285v: Lancelot dines with a lord and lady in a castle.
f. 286r: Lancelot fights a dragon that has emerged from the cemetery of Corbenic.
f. 286v: Lancelot is welcomed by King Pelles and his court at Corbenic castle.
f. 287r: Lancelot and King Pelles are at a feast, and a maiden carries the Holy Grail before them; Lancelot speaks to Brisane, governess of Elaine, the daughter of King Pelles.
f. 287v: Lancelot enters Elaine’s chamber.
f. 288r: Lancelot lies with Elaine and Galahad is conceived; Lancelot threatens Elaine.
f. 288v: Lancelot in a ditch after losing a fight against Hector’s uncle.
f. 289r: A knight speaks to Amable beside a spring.
f. 289v: Lancelot speaks to Amable, with two wounded knights lying on the ground.
f. 291r: Hector's uncle is rescued from a ditch after losing a fight against Lancelot.
f. 292r: Lancelot meets a maiden in the Forêtt Perdu (Lost Forest).
f. 292v: Lancelot dancing with a maiden at the carole magique (magical dance); Yvain meets a dwarf who has lost his dog.
f. 293v: A combat between Yvain and Bohort is interrupted.
f. 294v: Yvain speaks to the damsels of the pavilion.
f. 296r: The knight Triadan surrenders to Yvain.
f.296v: Mauduit the giant cuts off Triadan's hand.
f. 297r: Yvain fights two knights who fall in the water.
f. 297v: Yvain is imprisoned and speaks to the lady of the Chateau du Passage.
f. 298r: Bohort is welcomed by the lady of Galvoie.
f. 298v: Bohort defeats Mariales, son of Duke Kahenin.
f. 299r: Bohort is seated at the table at Corbenic with King Pelles and a maiden carries in the Holy Grail.
f. 300v: Bohort meets a maiden on a pony; Gawain rides out with Amable and her squire.
f. 301r: Lancelot is crowned at the carole magique, while a statue falls and breaks, lifting the spell.
f. 302r: Lancelot plays chess with an enchanted chessboard at Logres.
f. 303r: Lancelot is mistreated by Calles’s nephew and his companions.
f. 303v: Lancelot is rescued from a well filled with vermin by Calles’s great-niece.
f. 304r: Lancelot and Calles’s great-niece are attacked on the way to her chamber by her father and his knights.
f. 305r: Lancelot pursues a knight who has decapitated a maiden.
f. 305v: Lancelot sends the knight with the maiden's body to Queen Guinevere.
f. 306r: Lancelot rescues Calles’s great-niece from the fire.
f. 307r: The knight carrying the maiden's body surrenders to Guinevere.
f. 308r: Calles’s great-niece gives a message from Lancelot to Guinevere.
f. 308v: Lancelot, wearing red armour, meets King Baudemagus and his companions.
f. 309v: Lancelot fights the Knights of the Round Table in a tournament at Camelot.
f. 310v: Lancelot, sees Guinevere, feels ill and is seated beneath a tree by Baudemagus.
f. 311r: Bohort talking with Lancelot, who is lying in bed.
f. 311v: Amable kneels before Guinevere to ask her pardon.
f. 312v: Lancelot and Guinevere in bed together.
f. 313r: Guinevere gives Lancelot white armour and Bohort red armour.
f. 313v: Lancelot jousting with Gawain and Bohort jousting with Gaheriet.
f. 314r: King Arthur speaks to Lancelot from the walls of Camelot.
f. 314v: Gawain is brought back to Camelot wounded, and is greeted by the King.
f. 315r: Lancelot plays chess with the magic chessboard, watched by Guinevere and her ladies.
f. 315v: Gawain tells Arthur’s court about his adventures.
f. 316v: Guinevere gives Lancelot a magic gold ring.
f. 317r: Lancelot, Bohort, Gaheriet and Baudemagus leave Camelot to seek Hector and Lionel.
f. 317v: Mordred is rescued by Gaheriet and his companions.
f. 318r: Lancelot and knights arrive at the chateau du Trépas.
f. 318v: Lancelot is reunited with Yvain.
f. 319v: Bohort kills the giant Maudit.
f. 320r: Lancelot, Bohort and their companions take leave of one another.
f. 320v: Lancelot follows a maiden to Terrican's castle where the shields of his prisoners are displayed.
f. 321r: Lancelot and Terrican both fall down wounded and exhausted.
f. 321v: Lancelot cuts off Terrican's head.
f. 322v: Lancelot rescues a maiden from a knight who is abducting her.
f. 323r: Lancelot speaks to a maiden with a sparrow hawk.
f. 323v: Lancelot fights two giants.
f. 324r: Lancelot sends his squire to follow a man carrying a cross.
f. 324v: Lancelot is given a drugged drink by Morgain’s serving maid.
f. 325r: Lancelot lies in bed and Morgain blows poison into his nose through a silver pipe.
f. 325v: Lancelot in prison embracing a picture of Guinevere.
f. 326r: Gawain speaks to King Baudemagus, is being nursed in an abbey.
f. 326v: Mordred, Agloval and Baudemagus send a messenger to Carduel.
f. 327r: Lancelot in Morgain's prison holds a rose from the garden.
f. 327v: Lancelot meets a maiden and a dwarf.
f. 328r: A squire carrying a wounded knight in a litter rouses Lancelot from sleep.
f. 328v: Baudemagus, the wounded knight, meets Lancelot.
f. 330r: A king asks Lancelot to spare his son Marabron's life.
f. 330v: Lancelot, with a wounded Lionel on his horse, enters an abbey.
f. 331v: Lancelot sees a funeral procession with a dead knight in a litter.
f. 332r: A monk shows Lancelot the shields of the Knights of the Round Table.
f. 332v: A dwarf strikes Lancelot over the head with a stick.
f. 333r: A combat between Lancelot and Bohort.
f. 333v: Lancelot and Bohort recognise each other without their helmets.
f. 334r: Bohort surrenders to Lancelot.
f. 334v: Lionel meets Gawain and his companions at the Montaigne Interdite; Lancelot meets a dwarf on a pony.
f. 335r: Lancelot has killed two lions, and he rescues the head of his grandfather, the Old Lancelot, from the boiling spring, handing it to a hermit to place in the tomb.
f. 335v: Lancelot speaks to the hermit in front of a hermitage.
f. 336v: Lancelot rides after a white stag surrounded by four lions.
f. 337r: Lancelot has defeated King Merlin the Simple, and sorrowful women attend him.
f. 337v: A combat between Sarras of Logres and Helias le Noir.
f. 338r: A combat between Lancelot and Helias le Noir.
f. 338v: Sarras kneels before King Arthur and Queen Guinevere.
f. 339r: Elizabeth meets with a squire.
f. 339v: Claudas and Elizabeth talk.
f. 340r: Two servants search Elizabeth, looking for letters.
f. 340v: Guinevere sends a letter to Claudas asking him to free her cousin.
f. 341r: Claudas has the letter read to him by his clerk.
f. 341v: Lancelot fights Briadas, brother of Helias, the black knight.
f. 342r: Lancelot’s horse is killed, and Briadas flees.
f. 342v: The sister of Helias and Briadas begs Lancelot for mercy.
f. 343v: Lancelot and Mordred meet a knight in a litter and Lancelot removes the arrow from his thigh.
f. 344r: Gawain and the Knights of the Round Table return to court.
f. 345r: Agloval and his companions are pursued by forty knights.
f. 346r: Galehoudin and Gawain meet and embrace.
f. 346v: Galehodin is welcomed by the companions of the Round Table.
f. 347r: Lancelot and Mordred are defeated by a group of knights who steal their horses.
f. 348r: Mordred strikes down a knight and gives his horses to Lancelot.
f. 349v: Lancelot kneels and reads at mass.
f. 350r: Lancelot fights in the tournament of Peningue.
f. 351r: Lancelot and Bohort greet each other; the companions enter Galehoudin's castle after the tournament.
f. 352r: Bohort rescues the knight Marant and his sister from attackers.
f. 352v: Bohort is on the Lit Périlleux in the Palace Aventureux (Palace of Enchantment) at Corbenic.
f. 353r: Bohort watches a lion and a leopard fighting.
f. 354v: Lancelot enters a pavilion and meets the cousin of the King of the Hundred Knights lying in bed.
f. 355v: Lancelot beats two knights and rescues Keu.
f. 356v: Lancelot leaves Gawain, Yvain, Hector and Sagremor, having defeated all of them.
f. 357v: Gawain and his three companions return to Camelot and are greeted by Arthur.
f. 358v: A knight defeated by Lancelot at Pont Marvel surrenders to Queen Guinevere.
f. 359v: Lancelot returns to Camelot with his companions, and is received with ceremony by Arthur.
f. 360r: The knight Brumant, is burned to death in the Siège Périlleux (Perilous Seat) at the Round Table.
f. 360v: Lancelot, Arthur and Guinevere watch a tournament at Camelot.
f. 361v: The battle against Claudas: Arthur’s army besiege his castle.
f. 362r: A combat between Patrides, the nephew of Baudemagus and Claudas..
f. 362v: A fierce battle at the Chateau du Cor.
f. 364v: A counsel of Claudas and his lords, with Bohort and his army outside Gaunes.
f. 365v: Claudas and Claudin negotiate with Bohort and Gauvain.
f. 368v: The dead in the battle against Claudas are buried.
f. 369r: Bohort fells Claudin with his lance.
f. 370v: Arthur meets a messenger from Yvain in a forest.
f. 372r: King Arthur and Frolle both fall to the ground, exhausted from fighting.
f. 373r: Claudin, Canart, Esclamor and knights kneel before Arthur and give up the keys of the city of Gaunes.
f. 373v: King Pelles' daughter Elaine arrives at court and is greeted by Arthur.
f. 374r: Lancelot lies with Elaine.
f. 374v: Bohort, Lionel and Hector meet Mellic du Tertre at a cross.
f. 375r: Agloval and Perceval in a garden discussing their plans to leave.
f. 375v: Their mother dies of grief over Perceval's departure.
f. 376r: Perceval is brought by a maiden to sit at the Round Table with Arthur.
f. 376v: Perceval cuts the chain and frees Patrides.
f. 377v: Hector beats Perceval in a joust.
f. 378r: Hector and Perceval kneel to give thanks to God for the honour he has bestowed on them.
f. 378v: Lancelot naked enters a pavilion where a knight and a maiden are lying in a bed and strikes the shield.
f. 379v: Lancelot lies in bed and is tied up by Celinant and Bliant.
f. 380r: Lancelot has killed a boar and he talks with a hermit.
f. 380v: Lancelot, asleep beside a spring, is found by Elaine.
f. 381r: Lancelot laments before a shield portraying a knight kneeling before a queen.
f. 381v: Hector and Perceval meet a maiden near the Ile de Joie.
f. 382r: Lancelot kneels before Perceval and gives him his sword.
f. 383r: Lancelot, Hector and Perceval leave King Pelles and Corbenic, escorted by a large company.
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- Start Date:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 400 x 295 mm (text space: 285/90 x 230/35 mm).
Layout: 3 columns of 50 lines.
Foliation: ff. 381 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end. Flyleaves ff. [i] and [iv] are attached to marbled endpapers). This manuscript formerly consisted of 382 folios, but f. 1 is now bound separately, in Add MS 10294/1.
Collation: i8-1(ff. 2-8), ii-viii8 (ff. 9-64), ix8-1(ff. 65-71), x-xlviii8(ff. 72-383). Catchwords at the end of some quires.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather with gilt fore-edges and Roxburghe family crest with the motto 'Pro Christo et patria'.
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Origin: France, N. (Saint-Omer or Tournai).
Provenance:
Dated 1316: an inscription in Additional 10292, ff. 55v.
Charles VI (b. 1368, d. 1422), king of France: listed in the 1411 inventory of his library (see Delisle, Librairie de Charles V, II: Inventaire Charles V, Charles VI et Jean, Duc de Berry (1907).
The princes of Orange at Nozeroy: in the inventory of 1533, no 5 and in the 1686 catalogue of their collection, when the four volumes were still bound together as no 5 (see Middleton, 'The Manuscripts' (2006), p. 45).
Louis César de Baume le Blanc, Duc de La Vallière (b. 1708, d. 1780): his sale, de Bure, Paris, 1783, lot 3989.
John Duke of Roxburghe (b. 1740, d. 1804): his family crest on the cover with motto 'Pro Christo et Patria'; his sale, Robert H. Evans, 13 July, 1812, lot 6093.
Richard Heber, book collector (b. 1773, d. 1833): his sale, 19 February 1836, lot 1488; the four volumes, now Additional 10292, 10293,10294 and 10294/1, were bought by the British Museum for £131 5s.
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List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, in the years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), p. 28.
Léopold Delisle, Recherches sur la librairie de Charles V, 2 vols (Paris: H. Champion, 1907), II, Inventaire des livres ayant appartenu aux rois Charles V et Charles VI et à Jean, duc de Berry, p. 182, no. 1116.
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. 340-41.
H. Oskar Sommer, The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances, 7 vols (Washington, 1909-1916), III-V [for an edition of the text of this manuscript].
Roger Sherman Loomis and Laura Hibbard Loomis, Arthurian Legends in Medieval Art (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1938), pp.97-98.
A. Micha, 'Les Manuscrits du Lancelot en Prose', Romania, 84 (1963), 28-60 (pp. 47-48).
Virginia Wylie Egbert, The Mediaeval Artist at Work (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 56, pl. 18.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 23.
L'Estoire del Saint Graal, ed. by Jean-Paul Ponceau, 2 vols (Paris: Honoré Chapman, 1997), I, pp. xxvi, xxxi-xxxii.
Alison Stones, 'Indications écrites et modèles pictureaux, guides aux peintres de manuscrites enluminés aux environs de 1300', in Artistes, artisans et production artistique au Moyen Age: Colloque international, ed. by Xavier Barrai I Altet, 3 vols (Paris: Picard, 1986-90), III: Fabrication et Consommation de l'oeuvre, pp. 321-49 (pp. 322-25).
Michael Camille, 'Manuscript Illumination and the Art of Copulation', in Constructing Medieval Sexuality, ed. by Karma Lochrie, Peggy McCracken and James A. Schultz (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), p. 74, fig. 4.7.
M. Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament (Leuven: Tirion. 1998), pp. 131, 172.
Martine Meuwese, 'Three Illustrated Prose Lancelots from the same Atelier', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 81 (1999), 97-125.
Fanny Bogdanow, 'La Vision d'Histoire Arthurienne selon Robert de Boron', in Fils sans père: Etudes sur le 'Merlin' de Robert de Boron, ed. by Denis Hue, Medievalia, 35 (Orleans: Paradigme, 2000), pp. 51-76 [on the text].
Alison Stones, ‘A Note on the Maître au menton fuyant’, 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. 1247-71 (p. 1251).
Alison Stones, 'Mise en Page in the French Lancelot-Grail: the First 150 years of the Illustrative Tradition', in A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, ed. by Carol Dover (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), 125-44 (pp. 129, 133, 135, 137).
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, online at http://universitypublishingonline.org/boydell/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9781846152627&cid=CBO9781846152627A016; [accessed 17.09.13].
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 (p. 45, 79).
Irene Fabry, 'Continuity and Discontinuity: Illuminating and Interlacing the Adventures of Viviane and Merlin in the Prose Merlin', Marginalia, the Journal of the Medieval Reading Group at the University of Cambridge, 3 (2006), online at http://www.marginalia.co.uk/journal/06illumination/fabry.php [accessed 17.09.13].
La Légende du roi Arthur, ed. by Thierry Delcourt (Paris: Bibliotheque nationale de France, 2009), pp. 29, 167.
Alison Stones et al., The Lancelot-Graal Project (University of Pittsburgh), online at http://www.lancelot-project.pitt.edu/lancelot-project.html [accessed 03.12.13].
Alison Stones and Ken Sochats, 'Towards a Comparative Approach to Manuscript Study on the Web: the Case of the Lancelot-Grail Romance' in Codicology and Paleography in the Digital Age 2, ed. by Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritze and Georg Vogeler (Norderstedt: Bibliographische Information der Deuschen Nationalbibliothek, 2010), online at kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4341/1/03_stones.pdf [accessed 11.10.13].
Irène Fabry-Tehranchi and Catherine Nicolas, L'iconographie du Lancelot-Graal (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021], pp. 21, 23, 26, passim, table on pp. 415-531.
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