Lancelot du Lac : Part I, sections A and B.

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Title: Lancelot du Lac : Part I, sections A and B.
Contributor: Goldsmid, John Louis--Ownership.
Heber, Richard,--1773-1833.
La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc,--duc de,--1708-1780--Ownership.
Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership.
Utterson, Edward Vernon,--1775 or 1776-1856.
Published / Created: [14th century]
Publication Place: France,
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple scribal hands, of sections A and B of Part I of the Lancelot series of Arthurian romances. These sections cover Lancelot's birth, upbringing, adventures as a Knight of the Round Table, and passion for Queen Guenevere.
Description: Binding: early nineteenth-century? red silk velvet binding; gilt decoration on spine. Gilt leather spine tag: Lancelot du Lac. M S.
Decoration: large historiated initial at the opening of each section; smaller initials in red and blue penwork.
In Middle French.
Layout: double columns of 50-53 lines.
Previously owned by the Duc de la Vallière; John Louis Goldsmid; Edward Vernon Utterson; Richard Heber. Phillipps MS 8230. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Script: gothic (multiple scribes).
Extent: ff. ii + 354 + ii : parchment ; 325 x 200 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--France--14th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Goldsmid, John Louis--Ownership.
Heber, Richard,--1773-1833.
La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc,--duc de,--1708-1780--Ownership.
Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership.
Utterson, Edward Vernon,--1775 or 1776-1856.
Subject (Topic): Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800.
French literature--To 1500.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
Lancelot (Prose romance)
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medie

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De G