University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 862

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1701

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 862

Title:

Blancandin et l'Orgueilleuse d'Amour.

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[between 1275 and 1325]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Old French

Old French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 126 leaves : parchment ; 156 x 110 (115 x 69) mm bound to 166 x 124 mm

Note:

Layout: Written in 22 long lines (except folios 33r and 33v, which have 24); ruled in lead.
Water damage has made some text illegible (f. 1-5).
Title from the published edition of this manuscript.
Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 126 + ii (modern paper); [1-126]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
Decoration: Alternating red and blue 2-line initials, usually with flourishes of the contrasting color.
Binding: Modern morocco (Zacour-Hirsch); upper and lower covers and back endleaves detached from spine.
Origin: Written in France in the late 13th or early 14th century (Sweetser).
Explicit: ... Qui est arrivee al port / Et vient tot droit de Chatelfort.
Incipit: La pucelle de Tormedai / Plus belle rien de lui ne sai ...
Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt (London), 1953.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Codices

Fiction

Manuscripts, French

Romances (literary genre)

Knights and knighthood

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935693373503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3k06x13m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania