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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

Origin: 14th century, second quarter ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

Erased coat of arms, fol. 1.

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2022) from the following sources:
The Douce Legacy [exh. cat.] (1984), no. 95
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, I (1966), no. 592
abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 552

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (96 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-05-20: Revised to include all information from Summary Catalogue.

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