Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number
Fr31
Siglum / Shelfmark
Français 95 (formerly Regius 6769)
Page / Folio range
355ra-380ra

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative
Incipit or textual title
A Romme ot I empereour qui ot a non Dyoclesiens…
Language Group within Version


Further scholarly subgroup (2)

Languages

Regional / specific language

Digitisation & Editions

Note

Spectacular initial minature and marginalia.

A note on grouping: This text is listed as part of Version A in JONAS, Arlima, Runte, etc. However, because of the presence of Filia and Noverca, I have grouped this with the other texts demonstrating the bleed between A and L.

The BNF catalogue notes that this manuscript and the manuscript 'Phillips 130' (Yale University Beinecke Library, MS 229) are 'complémentaires'. The Beineke Library manuscript contains: Le livre de Lancelot du Lac, La queste del Graal, La mort au roy Artu. This has led to some cataloguing confusion; on the JONAS site, for example, the listing for the 'Sept Sages de Rome, version A' includes 'Yale University Library Beinecke Ms 229'. This appears to be in error, and due to the linking of the two manuscripts through their Arthurian texts.

This text is also apparently closely related to Cambridge Gg.6.28. Plomp (1889) observes that BNF 95 and Cam Gg.6.28 are so closely related that they replicate the same error: Anxilles is introduced 2nd, and Lentulus 3rd, but Lentulus tells the 2nd story, and Anxilles the 3rd.

Authorship & Production


Place of Production
Date of Production
c. 1280

Physical Description

Material
Total pages / folios
394
Height
470
Width
330


Illustrations
Yes

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript
1ra-113va: L'estoire del saint Graal

113va-354vb: Le roman de Merlin en prose, avec la Suite Vulgate du Merlin

355ra-380ra: Le roman des sept sages de Rome

380ra-394vb: André le Moine, La penitance Adam

Catalogues & Research Literature

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

Research Material

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