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
