Part 1: ff. 1r-164v

Description: - Parchment - 308 x 208 mm - 2 columns of 45-46 lines; ruling in ink and lead.

Country: France

Assigned Date: s. XIII2

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 2; scribe 1, ff. 1r-126r; scribe 2, ff. 126r-164v.

Script: Gothic.

Figurative Decoration: 4 historiated initials on gold grounds.

Other Decoration: 1 large initial in parti blue and red with pen-flourishing of both blue and red; 2- and 3-line initials in alternating red and blue with pen-flourishing of other color.

Notes: Quires 2 and 4 and 20 and 21 misbound; tie-marks in upper and lower margins provide directions for correct reading sequence. Six leaves missing.




Text 1: ff. 1r-98v

Other Associate: Jean de Flagy

Title: Garin le Loherain

Language(s): French

Incipit: Vielle chancon uoire plest uos oir / De bone estoire uos dirai sanz mentir . . .

Status of text: Leaves missing in quires 5, 12, 13, and 14 with consequent loss of text.

Image 1: f. 1, detail Historiated initial, bishops crowning a king.

Image 2: f. 9v Series of directions and varied tie marks, s. XV, to correct misbinding in quire 2, ff. 9-14.

Image 3: f. 10 Series of directions and varied tie marks, s. XV, to correct misbinding in quire 2, ff. 9-14.

Image 4: f. 11 Series of directions and varied tie marks, s. XV, to correct misbinding in quire 2, ff. 9-14.

Image 5: f. 12 Series of directions and varied tie marks, s. XV, to correct misbinding in quire 2, ff. 9-14.

Image 6: f. 13 Series of directions and varied tie marks, s. XV, to correct misbinding in quire 2, ff. 9-14.

Image 7: f. 13v Series of directions and varied tie marks, s. XV, to correct misbinding in quire 2, ff. 9-14.

Image 8: f. 14 Series of directions and varied tie marks, s. XV, to correct misbinding in quire 2, ff. 9-14.

Image 9: f. 41 Flourished initial.

Image 10: f. 50v, detail Historiated initial, mounted knight taking leave of a lady.

Image 11: Binding Front cover.

Image 12: Binding Back cover.




Text 2: ff. 98v-164v

Other Associate: Jean de Flagy

Title: Girbert de Mez

Language(s): French

Explicit: . . . Explicit deu loherane Ga : / Et de Guill. de fro : le gentis.

Notes: Text may also be considered to begin on either f. 83r or f. 94r (Schwartz, "Garin le Loheren" Romania98 [1977]: 545). 

Status of text: Leaves missing in quires 14 and 17 and half of ff. 155 and 159 torn away.

Image 13: f. 98v Historiated initial, a group of mounted knights pursuing another knight.

Image 14: f. 126r Change of hand.

Image 15: f. 142r Flourished initial.

Image 16: f. 155r, detail Historiated initial, a bishop marrying a king and his lady.