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Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain ou le Chevalier au lion

v. 4065-4196

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Brugge, Stads- en O.C.M.W.-archief Brugge, Archief van de familie Adornes en de Jeruzalemstichting te Brugge, nr. 244

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General Information

Title Chrétien de Troyes, <i>Yvain ou le Chevalier au lion</i>
Shelfmarks Brugge, Stads- en O.C.M.W.-archief Brugge, Archief van de familie Adornes en de Jeruzalemstichting te Brugge, nr. 244
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Northeastern France
Date of Origin late 13th - early 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height 215 mm
Page Width 180 mm
Height of Written Area 156 – 158 mm
Width of Written Area 135 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 60 mm
Number of Lines 33
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling No longer visible
More about the Condition

Prickings visible in outer margin.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf (two separate fragments, in situ)
Dimensions 214 x 58 mm
More about the Current Condition

The leaf was cut into two separate fragments. The quire guard before fol. 1 contains (parts of) fol. [1]v, col. A and B and fol. [1]r, col. A and B. This fragment was bound upside down. The quire guard after fol. 23 contains (part of) fol. [1]r, col. B and fol. [1]v, col. A.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Pen-flourished blue plain initial with red penwork (fol. [1]v, col. A).

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Chrétien de Troyes
    • Text Language Old French
    • Title <i>Yvain ou le Chevalier au lion</i>
    • Content Description
      • Fol. [1]r, col. A: v. 4065-4097.
      • Fol. [1]r, col. B: v. 4098-4130.
      • Fol. [1]v, col. A: v. 4131-4163.
      • Fol. [1]v, col. B: v. 4164-4196.

      Verse numbering based on Mario Roques, Les Romans de Chrétien de Troyes édités d’après la copie de Guiot (Bibl. nat. n. 794). IV. Le chevalier au lion (Yvain) (Paris: Champion, 1960).
    • quire guard after fol. 23, recto
    • Edition Geirnaert, Noël, ‘Membra disiecta Brugensia II: fragmenten in het fonds “Adornes en Jeruzalem”’, Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis, 37 (1983), 93–98

History

Remarks

The original manuscript may have been part of the Adornes family's personal collection, as the family was established in Northern France in the late 13th century before moving to Bruges.

Host Volume

Title School notebook, with excerpts of Latin texts
Date of Origin/Publication late 16th century - early 17th century
Place of Origin/Publication possibly Marquillies (a lordship controlled by the Adornes family around 1600; nowadays part of France)
Shelfmark Brugge, Stads- en O.C.M.W.-archief Brugge, Archief van de familie Adornes en de Jeruzalemstichting te Brugge, nr. 244
Persons The host volume originally belonged to an unidentified member of the Adornes family; it has been part of the Adornes' family archive ever since.

Bibliography

  • Geirnaert, Noël, ‘Membra disiecta Brugensia II: fragmenten in het fonds “Adornes en Jeruzalem”’, Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis, 37 (1983), 94–99
     https://doi.org/10.21825/kzm.v37i0.17001
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