Livre du Lancelot du Lac: three miniatures.

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Title: Livre du Lancelot du Lac: three miniatures.
Contributor: Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Published / Created: [ca. 1440]
Publication Place: Paris,
Abstract: Three miniatures, on vellum, from the copy of the Livre du Lancelot du Lac illustrated by the Dunois Master. They depict: 1) the Duke of Clarence and esquire, meeting a knight cutting off a woman's hair; 2) King Baudemagnus leading the battle against the Romans; 3) Lancelot's arrival at the city of Gorre.
Description: Binding: individually mounted.
From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Extent: 3 items : parchment ; 100 x100 mm (largest)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--France--14th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Subject (Topic): Arthurian romances in art.
Arthurian romances in art--Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Livre du Lancelot du Lac: three miniatures.. Takamiya MS 99.