La Mort Le Roi Artu: The Death of Arthur From the Old French Lancelot of Yale 229 With Essays, Glossaries, and Notes to the Text

by Willingham, Elizabeth Moore; Black, Nancy B. (CON); Blue, Walter (CON); Dulin-Mallory, Nina (CON); Greene, Virginie (CON)

• ISBN13: 9782503516769
• ISBN10: 2503516769
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-30
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

The multi-volume project The Illustrated Lancelot Prose responds to long-standing lacunae in Old French text study and Arthurian scholarship, in that it aims to provide a linguistically and scribally authentic text of a single illustrated Arthurian manuscript; in this case, it is one that has never before been edited, collated, or translated.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations and Notations Used in the Volume	p. 1
An Introduction to La mort le Roi Artu of Yale 229	p. 3
A retrospective of Yale 229
229's narratives
Aims and uses of this edition
The digital files
Reading the manuscript and the edition
Apparatus: text-editing notes
Reading medieval "format": space, ordinatio, and litterae notabiliores
Flourished initials
Plain initials
Minuscules: "une belle et grande ecriture"
Punctuation in the Mort of 229
Symbols, abbreviations, and suspensions
Manufacturers, scribes, draughtsmen, painters, and book owners
Rulings
Correcting the text
Telling flaws: tracks of production and ownership
The medieval scribe and the modern editor
A narrative of error and redemption
The Edited Text of La mort le Roi Artu of Yale 229	p. 27
Text-editing Notes	p. 209
Guide to Terms and Symbols in Manuscript and Language Studies	p. 215
Extended Notes to Folios, Text, and Narrative	p. 219
Apparatus and Abbreviations for Vocabulary: Glosses and Notes	p. 231
Vocabulary: Glossses and Notes	p. 235
Glossary of Proper Names	p. 251
A Selection of Suspensions and Contractions in the Mort Artu	p. 259
Manuscript Decoration in the Mort Artu	p. 259
Manuscript Decoration Glossary	p. 261
The Illustrations of the Mort Artu in Yale 229: Formats, Choices, and Comparisons	p. 263
The large miniatures in Yale
The small miniatures in Yale
Colour plates	p. 271
The Iconography of Yale and the Three Copies Made in Saint-Omer or Ghent c. 1310-25	p. 279
Bibliography including Works Cited	p. 317
The Yale Manuscript
Editions and Translations of the Mort Artu
Editions and Translations of Interest to the Mort Artu
Codicology, Paleography, and Text
Literary Criticism
Manuscript Art
Old French Language and Linguistics
Dictionaries and Glossaries
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