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Oversize Ms. Codex 933 Roman de Troie, fragment

Title

Roman de Troie, fragment

Authors

Benoît, de Sainte-More, active 12th century

Other related names

Olschki, Leo S. 1861-1940, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 933
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

bibid: 9935700103503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84067969
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3570010

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Old French

Origin

Written in France, ca. 1300 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Date: ca. 1300
Place: France

Summary

Fragment of the medieval Romance of Troy, written in octosyllabic couplets. The fragment corresponds, with numerous variants, to verses 6658-7024 in Volume I of Constans's critical edition of this text, in which the allies of Priam are listed and Palamedes arrives.

Notes

Ms. codex.
Title from Constans's edition.
Incipit: Me ... me covendi a retrere / Anci[es que] ie trespas avant ...
Explicit: ... [De tant] com[---] plus [lor targereiz] / Plus grant damage [fereiz;].
A physical description completed in 1979 by J. C. Atkinson is shelved with the manuscript.

Extent

2 leaves : 290 x 205 (240 x 154) mm. bound to 298 x 211 mm

Foliation

Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 2 + ii (modern paper); [1-2]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Single bifolium, formerly the center folios of a quire.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern pasteboard.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 47 lines; ruled in ink, with double verticals at the left margin of each column.

Script

Written in a Gothic book script.

Provenance

Formerly owned by Leo S. Olschki; sold from his collection, 1952.

Subjects topical

Trojan War

Genres

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

Keywords

13th century
14th century
Fragment
France
French

Licenses

Text

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Flyleaf 1 recto
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