University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 933

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DS ID:

DS1734

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 933

Title:

Roman de Troie, fragment.

Author:

Benoît, de Sainte-More, active 12th century

Benoît de Sainte-Maure WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[1300?]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Old French

Old French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 leaves : parchment ; 290 x 205 (240 x 154) mm bound to 298 x 211 mm

Former Owner(s):

Olschki, Leo S. 1861-1940

Leo Olschki WIKIDATA

Note:

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 47 lines; ruled in ink, with double verticals at the left margin of each column.
A physical description completed in 1979 by J. C. Atkinson is shelved with the manuscript.
Title from Constans's edition.
Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 2 + ii (modern paper); [1-2]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Single bifolium, formerly the center folios of a quire.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
Decoration: Alternating red and blue 2-line initials at irregular intervals; red initials have flourishes in violet and blue initials have flourishes in red.
Binding: Modern pasteboard.
Origin: Written in France, ca. 1300 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Explicit: ... [De tant] com[---] plus [lor targereiz] / Plus grant damage [fereiz;].
Incipit: Me ... me covendi a retrere / Anci[es que] ie trespas avant ...
Formerly owned by Leo S. Olschki; sold from his collection, 1952.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Legends

codices (bound manuscripts)

fragments (object portions)

Manuscripts, French

Romances (literary genre)

Turkey--Troy (Extinct city)

Trojan War

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935700103503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3n80n/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania