Manuscript, on parchment, in Gothic script, produced in Flanders during the fourth quarter of the thirteenth century.
Description:
Binding: dark brown calf skin over pasteboards (sixteenth or seventeenth century)., Decorations include a half-page initial on f. 43r (six other half-page initials have been cut from the manuscript) and illustrations of the labors of the months in the calendar., On the calendar page for December, St. Thomas of Canterbury's name has been erased from its place, indicating English ownership at least in the sixteenth century., and The back flyleaf has, in two fourteenth century hands, a French song "Une bon chanson ay troue" and a Middle English carol "Mayde and moder, glade thou be."
Du Pre, Galliot, fl. 1562-1579 Lewis, Charles, 1786-1836, binder Vidoue, Pierre, d. 1543
Published / Created:
1522
Call Number:
2010 +104
Image Count:
186
Abstract:
The first edition of one of the last and most interesting continuations of the Arthurian cycle. An expansion of the story of Tristan and Iseult, Ysaie is the story of their son, born to the couple just before their deaths and a few years before the collapse of the Arthurian kingdom. The romance deals with the troubled years after Arthur, and the efforts of Ysaie and his own son Marc to combat evil in post-Arthurian Britain.
Alternative Title:
Ysayee le triste
Publisher:
Imprime a Paris pour Galliot du Pre, libraire iure en l’universite. Demourant pres la Magdaleine a l’enseigne de la Galee. Avant la boutic que en la grande salle du palays au tiers pillier
Subject (Name):
Iseult (Legendary character) and Tristan (Legendary character)