Part 1: ff. 1r-191r

Description: - Parchment - 332 x 226 mm - 2 columns of 48 lines for prose; 3 columns of 48 lines for verse; ruled.

Country: France

Assigned Date: s. XIIIex

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Gothic.

Figurative Decoration: 4 miniatures; 22 historiated initials on square blue or pink grounds, some with gold decoration.

Other Decoration: 3- to 4-line painted intials with floral infilling; 4-line parti-colored red and blue initials with red and blue infilling; 2-line initials in alternating red and blue with pen-flourishing in other color; headings in red.




Text 1: Vol I, ff. 1r-92v

Title: La vie des pères

Language(s): French

Notes: Collection of sixty narrative poems. 

Status of text: Leaf missing after f. 79.

Image 1: Vol. I, f. 1r Three-tier historiated initial: the Crucifixion, two monks, and a monk and the Virgin.

Image 2: Vol. I, f. 27r Hierarchy of initials; expunction marks; tie-marks indicating position of additional line.

Image 3: Vol. I, f. 28r Hierarchy of initials; tie-marks indicating position of additional line; parchment mended with blue thread.

Image 4: Vol. I, f. 47r Addition written along edge of irregularly-shaped page.

Image 5: Vol. I, ff. 50v-51r Textual additions below columns.




Text 2: Vol I, ff. 92v-101r

Author: Gautier de Coincy

Title: Vie de Théophile

Language(s): French

Notes: Poem preceded by Gautier's general prologue in honor of the Virgin, ff. 92v-93v. 

Image 6: f. 92v




Text 3: Vol I, ff. 101r-105r

Author: Jean de Blois

Title: Conte dou Baril

Language(s): French




Text 4: Vol I, f. 105r-v

Other Associate: Rutebeuf, Nicholas Bozon.

Title: Neuf joies de Notre Dame

Language(s): French




Text 5: Vol II, ff. 1r-155v

Other Associate: Robert de Boron

Title: Merlin

Language(s): French

Notes: Early portions of the text based on the poem by Robert de Boron of the same title. 

Status of text: Missing leaves after ff. 88, 96, and maybe a few between ff. 119 and 144.

Image 7: Vol. II, f. 1r Miniature.

Image 8: Vol. II, f. 24v Textual emendation.

Image 9: Vol. II, f. 46r Addition to text with tie marks indicating insertion point.

Image 10: Vol. II, ff. 73v-74r Catchword; hierarchy of initials.

Image 11: Vol. II, f. 155r Table of contents added in a later hand.




Text 6: Vol I, ff. 111r-116v

Title: Vie de sainte Catherine

Language(s): Latin

Image 12: Vol. I, f. 111r Hierarchy of initials; marginal addition.




Text 7: Vol I, ff. 117r-191v

Title: Estoire del Saint Graal

Language(s): French

Image 13: Vol. I, ff. 116v-117r Historiated initial.

Image 14: Vol. I, f. 119v Historiated initial.

Image 15: Vol. I, f. 120v Initial without pen-flourishing.

Image 16: Vol. I, f. 126r Historiated initial.

Image 17: Vol. I, f. 134r Historiated initial; hierarchy of initials.

Image 18: Vol. I, ff. 135v-136r Historiated and painted initials.

Image 19: Vol. I, f. 143r Historiated initial.

Image 20: Vol. I, f. 145v Miniature, historiated initial.

Image 21: Vol. I, f. 191v Miniature.




Text 8: Vol I, ff. 105v-111r

Title: Passion de Jesus Crist

Language(s): French