Lancelot du lac (fragment)

Description

Title: Lancelot du lac (fragment)
Contributor: Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Published / Created: [ca. 1275-1300]
Publication Place: [France],
Abstract: Manuscript binding fragment, on parchment, of part of the text of Lancelot du Lac.
Description: Accompanied by three unidentified manuscript fragments that were part of the 2002 sale lot.
Decoration: illuminated initial with brown penwork.
Script: gothic script.
Sotheby's 2002 June 18 sale, lot 4. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Extent: 1 l. : parchment ; 182 x 46 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--France--13th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Subject (Topic): Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800.
Lancelot (Prose romance)
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library.
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.
Lancelot du Lac (Fragment). Takamiya MS 121.