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| | Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library,
BANC MS UCB 107 | | Description: ff. i + iii + 380 - Old vellum; red leather title-label, "Manuscrit precieux de 1133." - Pierre Philippe Constant Lammens (1762-1836); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his n. 1279; acquired by the Bancroft Library UC Berkeley from Sotheby's (28 November 1967, lot 93). Previous call number f2MS PQ1475 G69. | | Number of Parts: 2 - Number of Images Available: 13 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/BANCMSUCB107_1 | | Language: Latin French Country: France Century: 13th |
| | Part 1: ff. i-iii | | Description: - Parchment - 298 x 203 mm | | Country: France | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XIII/XIV | Searchable Date Range: 1290 - 1310 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: 1 | | Script: Gothic. | | Figurative Decoration: 16 roundels decorated with gold with signs of the zodiac and depictions of monthly occupations. | | Other Decoration: Painted initials decorated with gold on squared grounds of blue and red; calendar entries in red, blue, and brown. | | Notes: Calendar not originally part of this manuscript but contemporary with it. | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. i-iii | | Title:
Calendar
| | Language(s): Latin | | Notes: Some calendar entries in French. French poem in three stanzas, each ending with the line "du bon Briant de France conestable," added in a 14th century hand to the verso of f. iii. | |
| | Part 2: ff. 1-382v | | Description: - Parchment - 298 x 203 mm - 2 columns of 44-46 lines ruled in hard point and lead. | | Country: France | Cardinal point: northern | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XIII/XIV | Searchable Date Range: 1290 - 1310 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: 1 | | Script: Gothic. | | Figurative Decoration: 5 groups of miniatures on backgrounds of either burnished gold or white-patterned blue or red. | | Other Decoration: Numerous 4- to 7-line initials in gold or with gold decoration on painted, white-patterned grounds, occasionally inhabited but usually with geometric or foliate infillings; 2-line initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in other color. | | Notes: Foliated 1-382 but missing ff. 2 and 22; contemporary foliation in roman numerals, upper right margin. | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. 1-382v | | Title: "Lancelot Proper" | | Language(s): French | | Notes: Manuscript complete but contains only the first two thirds of the romance, sometimes known as La Reine aux grandes douleurs | | Status of text: Parts of some leaves torn away. | 
| f. 1
Miniature: the Round Table, King Claudas wounded, King Ban's wife and the baby Lancelot, the Lady of the Lake carrying the baby away, the Queen received by the abbess
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| f. 1, detail
Miniature: the Round Table, King Claudas wounded, King Ban's wife and the baby Lancelot, the Lady of the Lake carrying the baby away, the Queen received by the abbess
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| f. 62
Miniature: Arthur and courtiers riding, Arthur blowing a horn, Lady of the Lake presenting Lancelot to Arthur, Arthur welcoming Lancelot, Lancelot helping wounded knight
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| f. 126
Miniature: Arthur riding towards the kneeling Lancelot, Guinevere and attendants waiting for Lancelot, Guinevere and attendants
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| f. 206
Miniature: Guinevere and the Dame de Malehaut sending off Lancelot and Galehaut, Lancelot and Galehaut riding towards a castle, Lancelot and Galehaut riding with their squires
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| f. 319v
Miniature: Lancelot in a cart, Meleagant's stepsister rowing towards Lancelot's prison, Lancelot killing Meleagant
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