MS. Douce 199
Summary Catalogue no.: 21773
Contents
Language(s): Old French
1.
Lancelot de Lac Rubric: Ici commence li contes a parler dagrauain le bon chevalier
Incipit: Ci endroit dit li contes que quant Agrauains se fu de ses compegnons partis
Comprising the second part of the Romance proper
1. (fol. 300)
la Queste del saint Graal Rubric: […] commence ici endroit listoire del Saint Graal & dit en itele maniere
Incipit: A la ueille de Pentecoste quant li compeignen de la Table Ronde
As far as 'si trouue li hermites' in the episode of Gawain and the hermit: the MS. was left unfinished. The work is here, as usual, attributed to Walter Mape.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iv + 325 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): c. 350 × 255 mm.
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander i. 592,pl. XLV
Good miniatures, some defaced, by two different hands
Good borders.
Good initials.
Binding
Red velvet for Francis Douce.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Erased coat of arms, fol. 1.
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Record Sources
Description adapted (May 2022) from the following sources: abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (96 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-05-20: Revised to include all information from Summary Catalogue.