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Title

Blancandin et l'Orgueilleuse d'Amour

Call number

Ms. Codex 862
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935693373503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79958706
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3569337

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Old French

Origin

Date

between 1275 and 1325

Place

France

Summary

The medieval French romance of Blancandin (spelled Blanchardin in this manuscript) and his lady, Orgueilleuse d'Amour, written in octosyllabic couplets. Approximately 400 lines at the beginning and 600 lines at the end are missing.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from the published edition of this manuscript.
   
• Incipit: La pucelle de Tormedai / Plus belle rien de lui ne sai ...
   
• Explicit: ... Qui est arrivee al port / Et vient tot droit de Chatelfort.
   
• Water damage has made some text illegible (f. 1-5).
   

Extent

126 leaves : 156 x 110 (115 x 69) mm. bound to 166 x 124 mm

Foliation

Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 126 + ii (modern paper); [1-126]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern morocco (Zacour-Hirsch); upper and lower covers and back endleaves detached from spine.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines (except folios 33r and 33v, which have 24); ruled in lead.

Script

Written in a Gothic book script.

Provenance

• Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt (London), 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Knights and knighthood--Fiction

Genres

• Codices
• Romances (literary genre)
• Manuscripts, French--13th century
• Manuscripts, French--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• 14th century
• France
• French
• Literature -- Poetry

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