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Add MS 10294/1
- Record Id:
- 040-002560152
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002108086
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022536479.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 10294/1
- Title:
- Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
- Scope & Content:
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The first folio from each of Add MS 10293 and Add MS 10294, now bound together in a separate volume, Add MS 10294/1, numbered Additional 10293, f. 1 and Additional 10294, f. 1.
A note on the first paper flyleaf states: 'Separated from the volume for better preservation, 6 December, 1860'.
Contents:
Additional 10293, f. 1:
The first folio of the Lancelot propre, containing the first miniature of the cycle and the opening section of the text, incipit, 'En la marche de gaule', explicit, 'co[mme] chiex q[ui] porte ensenges'.
Decoration:
1 large miniature in colours on a gold ground of King Ban of Benoith and King Bohort of Gaunes, within pink, blue and red borders with penwork decoration in white, framed in silver, above an initial in gold on a blue and rose ground with penwork decoration in white. Full bar border with hybrid creatures, animals and human figures, one side consisting of a 3-storey chapel, each storey containing a courtly character. 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.
Additional 10294, f. 1:
Contents:
The first folio of La Queste del Saint Graal containing the first miniature of the cycle and the opening section of the text, incipit, 'A la veille de Pentecoste', explicit, 'Mesire G[awain] fait Lanceles facies q[ue] ceste espee v[ous]'.
Additional MS 10292, Additional MS 10293, Additional MS10294 and Additional MS10294/1 were formerly part of the same volume.
Decoration:
1 large miniature in colours on a gold ground of Arthur's court seated at table, within rose, blue, green and red borders with penwork decoration in white, framed in gold, above a historiated initial in rose and red on a gold, blue and rose ground with penwork decoration in white. Full bar border in gold, blue and rose with hybrid creatures, animals and human figures. 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.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002108086
040-002560152 - Is part of:
- Add MS 10292-10294/1 : Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Add MS 10294/1 : Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002108086[0004]/040-002560152
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 10292-10294/1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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2 folios, one from Add MS 10293 and one from Add MS 10294
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10294/1 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
French, Old - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1316
- End Date:
- 1316
- Date Range:
- 1316
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 400 x 295 mm (text space: 295 x 240 mm).
Layout: 3 columns of 50 lines.
Foliation: ff. 2 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning, 2 between ff. 1 and 2 and 19 at the end);
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather with gilt fore-edges and Roxburghe family crest with the motto 'Pro Christo et patria'.
- Custodial History:
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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.
- Former Internal References:
- Add MS 10293/4
Add MS 10294A - Publications:
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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. 352-53.
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. Oskar Sommer, The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances, 7 vols, (Washington, 1909-1916).
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, 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.
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.
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).
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), p. 115, fig. 196.
L'Estoire del Saint Graal, ed. by Jean-Paul Ponceau, 2 vols (Paris: Honoré Chapman, 1997), I, pp. xxvi, xxxi-xxxii.
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).
Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475 (Leuven: Brepols, 2002), no. 55 [exhibition catalogue].
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).
Alixe Bovey, The Chaworth Roll: A fourteenth-century Genealogy of the Kings of England (London: Sam Fogg, 2004), p. 17, fig. 13.
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].
Alison Stones, 'Illustration and the fortunes of Arthur' in The Fortunes of King Arthur, ed. by Norris J. Lacy (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005), 116-165 (pp. 117, 125, 136).
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].
Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 60.
Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pl. 28.
La Légende du roi Arthur, ed. by Thierry Delcourt (Paris: Bibiothèque nationale de France, 2009), p. 24, 29, 48.
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].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)