Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Le Roman de Troie, in French verse, a leaf from a manuscript on vellum

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

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Description

a single leaf, 200mm. by 74mm., double column, 30 lines, written-space 158mm. by 105mm., written in dark brown ink in a gothic bookhand, first letters of each line slightly set apart, a 3-line initial in blue and red, wormed and defective, recovered from a binding and one side very worn

Catalogue Note

Lines 22429-22548 in L. Constans, ed., Le Roman de Troie par Benoît de Sainte-Maure, III, 1907, pp.404-9, with the text on the funeral and succession of Achilles in the wars of Troy.