(Q52926)
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Lancelot (Prose cycle)
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MacCarthy-Reagh, comte de Toulouse, 1744-1811
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Lancelot (Legendary character)--Romances
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Specimens
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between 1275 and 1299
13. century
1275Gregorian
1299Gregorian
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Extent: 164 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 290 x 190 (210 x 150) mm bound to 290 x 200 mm
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Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 866:6) & positive (BANC MS UCB 73 FILM)
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negative (BOX 866:6) & positive (BANC MS UCB 73 FILM)
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A note in Latin in a French hand on the first parchment flyleaf records that the manuscript was purchased on 8 June 1479 by an owner whose name is illegible; Count MacCarthy-Reagh, of Toulouse; bought from the Paris bookseller Royez by Sir Thomas Phillipps, his MS. 4377.
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Authorship fictitiously ascribed to Walter Map, a diplomatic and ecclesiastical official of King Henry II of England.
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Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 73.
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Ms. codex.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Collation: collation indiscernable; manuscript bound too tightly.
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Layout: 40 lines per page; ruled in lead.
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Script: Written in a gothic script by one hand.
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Decoration: 1 historiated initial on gold ground. 9- and 10- line initials in particolored red and blue with infilling and flourishing of red and blue; 2- and 3-line initials in alternating red and blue with pen-flourishing of the other color.
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Straight-grained red morocco, 18th century; gilt border and spine; bound by Richard Wier, approximately 1774.
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Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS PQ1475 G7.
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1. fol. 1r-79v: "[text] La veille de la pentecoste quant li compaignon de la table roonde furent venu ... et quant boorz at contees les aventures del graal celes quilles ot veues, si furent mises en escrit et gardes en larmaire de salesbieres, dont mestre Gautier map le trest a fere son livre do S. Graal por amor do roi Henri son segnor qui fist lestoire translater en francois, si se test...
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2. fol. 80r-163v: "[text] Apres ce que mestre Gautier map ot translate des aventures del Saint Graal assez seffisamment ... si se test ore atant mestre Gautier map de Lancelot et fenist ici son livre si outreement que apres ce nen porroit nus renier qui nen mentist de totes choses. Explicit la mort Artur."
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20 September 2024
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20 September 2024
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