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| | Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library,
BANC MS UCB 106 | | Description: ff. ii + 191 + ii + ii + 155 + ii - Calf gilt, early 19th century, by Lefebvre; now bound as two volumes but was originally one codex. - Motteley sale, Paris (1824, lot 875); Robert Lang, his sale, Evans (17 November 1828, lot 1962); Phillipps (1792-1872), his n. 3643; acquired by the Bancroft Library UC Berkeley from Sotheby's (28 November 1967, lot 92). Formerly f2MS PQ1475 G68. | | Notes:-UCB106 volumes I and II were originally bound as one codex. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 21 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/BANCMSUCB106_1 | | Language: French Latin Country: France Century: 13th |
| | 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 | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XIIIex | Searchable Date Range: 1285 - 1299 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | 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. | | Number of Texts: 8 |
| | 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. | 
| Vol. I, f. 1r
Three-tier historiated initial: the Crucifixion, two monks, and a monk and the Virgin.
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| Vol. I, f. 27r
Hierarchy of initials; expunction marks; tie-marks indicating position of additional line.
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| Vol. I, f. 28r
Hierarchy of initials; tie-marks indicating position of additional line; parchment mended with blue thread.
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| | 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. | |
| | 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. | |
| | Text 6: Vol I, ff. 111r-116v | | Title: Vie de sainte Catherine | | Language(s): Latin | |
| | Text 7: Vol I, ff. 117r-191v | | Title: Estoire del Saint Graal | | Language(s): French | |
| | Text 8: Vol I, ff. 105v-111r | | Title: Passion de Jesus Crist | | Language(s): French | |
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