University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 73

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12372

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 73

Title:

La queste del Saint Graal ; La mort de Roi Artur

Place:

Northern France

Northern France TGN

Date:

between 1275 and 1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Old French

Old French WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (BOX 866:6) & positive (BANC MS UCB 73 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 164 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 290 x 190 (210 x 150) mm bound to 290 x 200 mm
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 866:6) & positive (BANC MS UCB 73 FILM)

Former Owner(s):

MacCarthy-Reagh, comte de Toulouse, 1744-1811

Justin MacCarthy Reagh WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

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.
Authorship fictitiously ascribed to Walter Map, a diplomatic and ecclesiastical official of King Henry II of England.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 73.
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Collation: collation indiscernable; manuscript bound too tightly.
Layout: 40 lines per page; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a gothic script by one hand.
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.
Straight-grained red morocco, 18th century; gilt border and spine; bound by Richard Wier, approximately 1774.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS PQ1475 G7.
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...
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."

Keyword:

Arthurian romances

Specimens

Romances

Grail

Manuscripts, Medieval

Lancelot (Legendary character)

Manuscripts, French

Arthur, King

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991047681679706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228917/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley