Lancelot Cycle, Branch 1 — c. 1300; French
MS. Douce 303
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Lancelot Cycle, Branch 1 — c. 1300; French
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 303
Date
c. 1300
Language
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii + 114leaves, in double columns
Decoration
Good historiated border.
Good miniatures.
Good historiated initials.
Good other initials.
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Provenance
Louis César de La Baume le Blanc (1708-1780), duc de La Vallière: sale (1783) no. 3993.
Pierre-Antoine Bolongaro-Crevenna (d. 1792): sale, Amsterdam, 1790 (Douce Legacy, p. 136).
Francis Douce, 1757–1834
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Title
The prose romance of the San Graal proper
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 303
Summary
At end:' Explicit le commencement de lestoire del Saint Graal, et chi apres vient lestoire de Merlin. Diex nos maint tous a bone fin. Amen', all in capitals: beg. 'Chil qui si tient': ends 'or nos consalt Diex & sainte Marie. Amen.' This is the prose romance of the San Graal proper, as distinguished from the Quest of the San Graal. At fol. 107r occurs 'sires Robers de Borron qui ceste translata de Latin en Francois', cf. 112v ad fin. Robert de Borron is generally considered to have been the author.
Date
written late in the 13th cent.
Language
French
Physical facet
On parchment, with one miniature and border, illuminated capitals
Physical extent
114 leaves, in double columns
Custodial history
In the La Vallière sale (1783) no. 3993.
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Collection contents
The prose romance of the San Graal proper
