Add MS 10294, ff 2-96

Contents:

Parts VI and VII of the Lancelot-Grail:

VI: La Queste del Saint Graal, from the second folio, incipit, 'toucera de si pres q[ue] v[ous] ne le voldries avoir baillie', explicit, 'Si se taist atant li contes que plus nen dist des aventures del s[aint] graal'. (ff. 2r-53r);

VII: Morte Artu, incipit 'Apres che q[ue] maistres Gautiers Map ot traitie des aventures del s[aint] Graal ', explicit, 'apres che nen poroit nous raconter chose quil ne mentist' (ff. 53r-96v).

Decoration:

71 miniatures in colours on gold grounds within pink, blue and red borders with penwork decoration in white, each above an initial in gold on a blue and rose ground with penwork decoration in white. 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. Instructions to rubricators at the bottom of pages, partially erased (e.g., f. 34v).

The subjects of the miniatures are:

f. 5v: Galahad finds his companions in an abbey;

f. 8v: Galahad rescues Melian;

f. 10v: Gawain, Yvain and Galahad at the gates of a castle with damsels inside;

f. 11v: Lancelot and Perceval fight with a knight bearing a white shield with a red cross;

f. 14v: Perceval at the window of a cloister;

f. 23r: Lancelot being reprimanded by a hermit in front of his hermitage;

f. 28r: Lancelot joins the black knights in battle, to great effect;

f. 29v: Gawain and Hector meet in a forest;

f. 32v: Bohort meets a cleric on a mule;

f. 34v: Bohort about to cut off a knight's head, while the old lady flees;

f. 38v: A flash of light from heaven stuns Lionel and Bohort and their horses;

f. 39r: Galahad performs marvellous feats in a tournament;

f. 41v: Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge;

f. 42v: Cain murdering Abel and taking his flocks;

f. 44r, Galahad, Perceval, Bohort and a damsel in a boat, with Perceval reading a letter;

f. 44v: A battle in front of a castle;

f. 45v: Galahad and Perceval find the white stag being led off by four lions;

f. 46v: A hermit gives the sacrament to a damsel who is ill in bed with people praying;

f. 47r: Two knights watch a castle destroyed by a flash of lightning;

f. 47v: Lancelot reading a letter he finds in a boat with a maiden lying dead;

f. 49v: A knight speaking to a king in a castle;

f. 50r: Galahad holding King Mordrain in his arms;

f. 50v: Perceval, Galahad and Bohort stand before King Arthur and Galahad joins the two halves of a broken sword;

f. 52r: Galahad, Perceval and Bohort carry the table of the Holy Grail;

f. 53r: King Arthur asks Gawain how many knights he has killed on his quest;

f. 54v: Lancelot performs marvellous feats in a tournament;

f. 55v: Gawain and Gaheriet, his brother, encounter 2 squires carrying a dead body;

f. 56r: Gawain speaking of love to a damsel and Mordred speaking to a knight;

f. 58v: The Lady of Shalott speaks to her brother about Lancelot, who is wounded;

f. 59v: A tournament wherein much blood is shed;

f. 60v; A knight talking to the door-keeper of a castle;

f. 62v : The Lady of Shalott, holding her dog, speaks to Lancelot of love;

f. 63v, Gaheris de Kareheu eats poisoned fruit given by the queen to him in place of Gawain;

f. 64r, Lancelot catches a hunter with a sword in a forest;

f. 64v, The Queen is accused of treason by the knight, Mador de la Porte while she is at dinner with the King;

f. 65v; King Arthur and knights find a ship with the body of a damsel inside;

f. 66v, Lancelot meets a knight at a spring between two trees and asks for news of the queen;

f. 67r, The Queen and Bohort talk alone in her chamber;

f. 67v, Lancelot, fully armed, confronts King Arthur about the accusation of treason against Guinevere;

f. 68r; Lancelot fights for Queen Guinevere's honour;

f. 68v: King Arthur in counsel with three knights;

f. 69v: Lancelot kills a knight at the entrance to the Queen's chamber and the others flee;

f. 70v: Lancelot and Bohort rescue Queen Guinevere from the fire;

f. 71r: King Arthur mourns the knights who were killed by Lancelot when he rescued the Queen;

f. 71v: King Arthur goes to the chapel where the dead bodies are laid;

f. 73r: Arthur besieging Lancelot in a castle;

f. 73v: An army outside a castle; a damsel enters secretly with a message for Lancelot;

f. 74r: A damsel comes to speak to King Arthur, who is having dinner in a tent;

f. 74v: The battle between King Arthur and Lancelot;

f. 76r: A bishop asks King Arthur to make peace with Lancelot;

f. 77v: Lancelot on foot hands the bridle of the Queen's horse to King Arthur;

f. 78r: Gawain hands Lancelot his glove as a challenge to him for killing his brother;

f. 78v: Lancelot, Bohort and their company leave Joyeuse Garde, sorrowful and angry;

f. 79r: King Arthur boarding a ship with his company, while the Queen laments;

f. 79v: An old woman speaks to King Arthur and his men before the city of Gaunes;

f. 80r: Two bishops read a false letter to Queen Guinevere;

f. 81v: Mordred attacks the tower where Guinevere is kept;

f. 82r: Arthur receives the gloves of Lancelot and Gawain before the barons;

f. 84r: Lancelot and Gawain do battle and are both seriously wounded;

f. 85r: Lancelot speaks to King Arthur about Gawain, who leans on his sword;

f. 86r: King Arthur brings back the body of the Roman Emperor to his subjects on a litter;

f. 86v: A letter is brought to King Arthur in his pavilion on the battlefield;

f. 87r: A message is brought to Mordred in his pavilion;

f. 87v: Guinevere and her two maidens begging for clothes and bread at an abbey;

f. 88r: King Arthur bringing back the body of Gawain;

f. 89r: A lady is wounded by a sword while she mourns for Gawain; King Arthur on the wheel of fortune, with the lady Fortuna blindfolded;

f. 91v: King Carados and his sword carried up a hill;

f. 93r: Many are killed in the battle between King Arthur and Mordred;

f. 94r: Gifflet watches the hand emerge from the lake to catch King Arthur's sword;

f. 94v: Lancelot and his companions come to the river and find their boat;