Estoire del saint Graal
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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2749/15
Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title
<i>Estoire del saint Graal</i>, short version
Shelfmarks
Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.2749/15
Page/Folio Reference
fol. 1-2
Material
Parchment
Place of Origin
Northern France
Date of Origin
early 14th century
Script, Hands
Northern gothica textualis libraria
General Remarks
The doubleleaf is currently bound with its original outside, on the inside.
Original Condition
Page Width
208 – 210 mm
Height of Written Area
203 – 205 mm
Width of Written Area
143 – 145 mm
Number of Columns
2
Width of Columns
66 – 67 mm
Number of Lines
at least 42
Line Height
4 – 5 mm
Ruling
Lead-point ruling
Numbering
Modern foliation in pencil, using Arabic numbers
Current Condition
Extent
1 bifolium (trimmed)
Dimensions
295 x 210 mm
More about the Current Condition
Bound with a coardboard cover in the 20th century.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Pen-flourished initials and versals in red and blue ink.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Middle French
- Title <i>Estoire del saint Graal</i>, short version
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- Edition Gros, Gérard, ‘Joseph d’Arimathie’, in Le livre du Graal. 1: Joseph d’Arimathie, Merlin, Les premiers faits du roi Arthur, ed. by Daniel Poirion (Paris: Gallimard, 2001), § 55-56, 66-67; Roy, Bruno, ‘L’Estoire del saint Graal: un nouveau fragment’, in Image et images du Moyen Âge: mélanges en l’honneur de Jacques Charles Lemaire, ed. by Alain Goldschläger (Orléans, 2014), pp. 91–98
History
Provenance
The fragment was used as binding material in an archival document at the State Archives in Ghent, where it was kept until 1919 (stamps on fol. [1]r and [1]r-[2]a). In 1919 Ghent University Library acquired it in the context of an exchange with the State Archives.
Host Volume
Remarks
Presumably used as binding for archival documents.
Bibliography
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Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), 273
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Roy, Bruno, ‘L’Estoire del saint Graal: un nouveau fragment’, in Image et images du Moyen Âge: mélanges en l’honneur de Jacques Charles Lemaire, ed. by Alain Goldschläger (Orléans, 2014), pp. 91–98