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The medieval French romance of Blancandin (spelled Blanchardin in this manuscript) and his lady, Orgueilleuse d'Amour, written in octosyllabic couplets. Approximately 400 lines at the beginning and 600 lines at the end are missing.
Support: parchment; Extent: 126 leaves : 156 x 110 (115 x 69) mm. bound to 166 x 124 mm; Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 126 + ii (modern paper); [1-126]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Written in 22 long lines (except folios 33r and 33v, which have 24); ruled in lead.
Written in a Gothic book script.
Ms. codex.
Title from the published edition of this manuscript.
Incipit: La pucelle de Tormedai / Plus belle rien de lui ne sai ...
Explicit: ... Qui est arrivee al port / Et vient tot droit de Chatelfort.
Water damage has made some text illegible (f. 1-5).
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
France
Written in France in the late 13th or early 14th century (Sweetser).
Modern morocco (Zacour-Hirsch); upper and lower covers and back endleaves detached from spine.
Old French
Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt (London), 1953.
France
Written in France in the late 13th or early 14th century (Sweetser).
Old French
Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt
The medieval French romance of Blancandin (spelled Blanchardin in this manuscript) and his lady, Orgueilleuse d'Amour, written in octosyllabic couplets. Approximately 400 lines at the beginning and 600 lines at the end are missing.
Ms. codex.
Title from the published edition of this manuscript.
Incipit: La pucelle de Tormedai / Plus belle rien de lui ne sai ...
Explicit: ... Qui est arrivee al port / Et vient tot droit de Chatelfort.
Water damage has made some text illegible (f. 1-5).
Written in a Gothic book script.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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