Fragments from the Renaut de Montauban

Notes:

Prickings visible. Holes for the stitching can be seen in the folds of the fragments. The fragments were used as binding material and text is partially unreadable., The first letters of each line are written in capitals, set slightly apart from the line., Two 13th century manuscript fragments of an unrecorded copy of Renaut de Montauban, a Old French chanson de geste telling the story of the four sons of Haymo and their magical horse in their rebellion against Charlemagne. The fragments consist of two narrow strips of parchment cut from the top and bottom of the same bifolium. They contain fewer than 100 lines of the poetic text. The first fragment is the upper portion of the conjoined leaves and the second fragment is the lower portion of the conjoined leaves. The fragments were used as binding material in an sixteenth century French print book. The right margin of each fragment has been cut away, with slight loss of text., The text is written in clear textualis book hand (textualis libraria). Each fragment is written in two columns on each side., and The fragments were used as spine guards recovered from the binding of a sixteenth century French printed book belonging to the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies in the Hekman Library at Calvin University. The bookbinder who retained the fragments and gave them to Frans Van Liere in 2016. The fragments were later donated to WMU Special Collections.

Date Created:

[1175 TO 1299]

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Manuscripts, French, Chansons de geste--Early works to 1800, Manuscript waste (Binding), Fragments (object portions), and Renaut de Montauban (Chanson de geste)

Language:

fro

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