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Fragment of the medieval Romance of Troy, written in octosyllabic couplets. The fragment corresponds, with numerous variants, to verses 6658-7024 in Volume I of Constans's critical edition of this text, in which the allies of Priam are listed and Palamedes arrives.
Support: parchment; Extent: 2 leaves : 290 x 205 (240 x 154) mm. bound to 298 x 211 mm; 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.
Written in 2 columns of 47 lines; ruled in ink, with double verticals at the left margin of each column.
Written in a Gothic book script.
Ms. codex.
Title from Constans's edition.
Incipit: Me ... me covendi a retrere / Anci[es que] ie trespas avant ...
Explicit: ... [De tant] com[---] plus [lor targereiz] / Plus grant damage [fereiz;].
A physical description completed in 1979 by J. C. Atkinson is shelved with the manuscript.
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, ca. 1300 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Modern pasteboard.
Old French
Formerly owned by Leo S. Olschki; sold from his collection, 1952.
France
Written in France, ca. 1300 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Old French
Formerly owned by Leo S. Olschki; sold from his collection, 1952.
Fragment of the medieval Romance of Troy, written in octosyllabic couplets. The fragment corresponds, with numerous variants, to verses 6658-7024 in Volume I of Constans's critical edition of this text, in which the allies of Priam are listed and Palamedes arrives.
Ms. codex.
Title from Constans's edition.
Incipit: Me ... me covendi a retrere / Anci[es que] ie trespas avant ...
Explicit: ... [De tant] com[---] plus [lor targereiz] / Plus grant damage [fereiz;].
A physical description completed in 1979 by J. C. Atkinson is shelved with the manuscript.
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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