Lancelot du lac

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Title: Lancelot du lac
Alternate Title: Lancelot (Prose romance)
Digital Image Rights Holder: The Newberry Library
Type of Resource: Manuscript book
Genre: Narrative
Date Issued: 1275/1300
Language: Old French, 842-1399
Physical Description: Fol. 292r-293r of 354 leaves (31-40 lines, 2 columns): vellum
20 x 28 cm (trimmed)
Script: Early gothic textualis
Decoration: Blue and red pen-flourished initials
Miniature, fol. 292r: Méléagant's sister in a boat approaches Lancelot, watching from the tower
Provenance: Malet de Graville, Louis, 1438-1516, former owner
Graville, Anne de, c.1490-c.1543, former owner
Urfé, Claude d', 1501-558, former owner
La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de, 1708-1780, former owner
Crevenna, Pietro Antonio, d.1792, former owner
Folliot George, former owner
Quaritch, Bernard, former owner
Purchased by the Newberry from B. Quaritch in 1939
Reading Difficulty: Introductory
Topic: Art and Culture
Subject: Arthurian romances--Manuscripts
Lancelot (Prose romance)
Region: France--Ile-de-France?
City: Paris?
Coordinates: 48° 51′ 24″ N, 2° 21′ 03″ E
Time Period: Before 1400
Notes: Red morocco binding made for the duke of La Vallière, 18th-century
Repository: The Newberry Library
Call Number: Newberry VAULT folio Case MS 21
Links: Catalog Link
Partial Transcription
Background Essay