Rouman du roy Artus

Accession number: 
MS M.916
Title: 
Rouman du roy Artus
Created: 
France, ca. 1440-1460.
Binding: 
Early 19th-century black leather gilt, inscribed on spine: La table ronde de Lancelos / au temps du roi Uter Pandragon.
Credit: 
Purchase; Laurence Witten, with income from the Lathrop Colgate Harper Trust Fund; March, 1963.
Description: 
155 leaves (2 columns, 38 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 295 x 205 mm
Provenance: 
16th-century inscription at lower margin of fol. 1: Laurentij Piocheti (Riocheti?) Camberiani; 17th-century note Illuminated signed Sallin on front pastedown, with motto: en dieu la fein Sallin; Marquis of Aix ̉la Sarraz (inscription upper corner of fol. 1: De la Bibliothèque de M. le Marquis d'Aix ̉la Sarraz); note in Italian (removed from manuscript) from G. Gazzera, formerly librarian of Turin University Library to the Marquis, discussing this manuscript, which he had examined; Ambroise Firmin-Didot (bookplate on front flyleaf with the date of 1850; Dr. Lucien Graux; Laurence Witten, New Haven; purchased from Witten with income from the Lathrop Colgate Harper Trust Fund in March, 1963.
Notes: 

Ms. Arthurian romances, written and illuminated in France, ca. 1440-1460.
Texts: 1) Guiron le Courtois: Enfances Guiron (fols. 1-60); 2) episodes derived from Rusticien de Pise's Rouman du roy Artus, rearranged and completed by a sequel not found elsewhere (fol. 60-154v).
Decoration: 1 illuminated border with droleries and 1 illuminated initial; preparatory drawings for borders on fols. 4, 6v, and 7v.

Script: 
bastarda
Language: 
French
Century: 
Classification: