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[Roman de Troie, fragment].

Author/Creator:
Benoît, de Sainte-More, active 12th century.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
2 leaves : parchment ; 290 x 205 (240 x 154) mm bound to 298 x 211 mm
Production:
[France], [1300?]
Status/Location:
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Standardized Title:
Roman de Troie. Selections
Subjects:
Trojan War.
Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends.
Form/Genre:
codices (bound manuscripts)
fragments (object portions)
romances (literary genre)
Manuscripts, French -- 13th century.
Manuscripts, French -- 14th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Legends.
Language:
Old French.
Summary:
Fragment of the medieval Romance of Troy, written in octosyllabic couplets. The fragment corresponds, with numerous variants, to verses 6658-7024 in Volume I of Constans's critical edition of this text, in which the allies of Priam are listed and Palamedes arrives.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from Constans's edition.
Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 2 + ii (modern paper); [1-2]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Single bifolium, formerly the center folios of a quire.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 47 lines; ruled in ink, with double verticals at the left margin of each column.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
Decoration: Alternating red and blue 2-line initials at irregular intervals; red initials have flourishes in violet and blue initials have flourishes in red.
Binding: Modern pasteboard.
Origin: Written in France, ca. 1300 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Me ... me covendi a retrere / Anci[es que] ie trespas avant ...
Explicit: ... [De tant] com[---] plus [lor targereiz] / Plus grant damage [fereiz;].
A physical description completed in 1979 by J. C. Atkinson is in the library's files.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Leo S. Olschki; sold from his collection, 1952.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 58 (Ms. French 24).
Described in Jung, Marc-René. La légende de Troie en France au moyen âge (Basel: Francke, 1996), p. 328
Not among the manuscripts compiled in Constans, Léopold. Le Roman de Troie par Benoit de Sainte-Maure: publié d'après tous les manuscrits connus (Paris: Didot, 1904).
Cited as:
Benoît de Sainte-More, Roman de Troie Fragment (Oversize Ms. Codex 933). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
Contributor:
Olschki, Leo S. (Leo Samuel), 1861-1940, former owner.
OCLC:
155925522