Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple scribal hands, of sections A and B of Part I of the Lancelot series of Arthurian romances. These sections cover Lancelot's birth, upbringing, adventures as a Knight of the Round Table, and passion for Queen Guenevere.
Description:
Binding: early nineteenth-century? red silk velvet binding; gilt decoration on spine. Gilt leather spine tag: Lancelot du Lac. M S., Decoration: large historiated initial at the opening of each section; smaller initials in red and blue penwork., In Middle French., Layout: double columns of 50-53 lines., Previously owned by the Duc de la Vallière; John Louis Goldsmid; Edward Vernon Utterson; Richard Heber. Phillipps MS 8230. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: gothic (multiple scribes).
Subject (Name):
Goldsmid, John Louis--Ownership., Heber, Richard,--1773-1833., La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc,--duc de,--1708-1780--Ownership., Lancelot--(Legendary character), Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership., and Utterson, Edward Vernon,--1775 or 1776-1856.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., French literature--To 1500., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Lancelot (Prose romance), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medie
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., and Sotheby's 2002 June 18 sale, lot 4. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
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., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript bifolium, in a single hand, containing text from chapters 34, 35, and 39 of this prose romance.
Description:
Decoration: Rubricated. Three-line initials in gold against blue and rose grounds., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 52 lines., and Script: gothic script.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., French prose literature--To 1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Méliadus de Léonnoys.
Four manuscript fragments from three leaves containing text from Version III of the Roman de Tristan.
Description:
Decoration: initials in red and blue penwork., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: gothic script.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., French prose literature--To 1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renai, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library.