| Summary: | Description: ESTOIRE DEL SAINT GRAAL: the prose romance purporting to be from a Latin original translated by Robert de Borron; compare 14 E. III, art. 1, and Sommer's Arthurian Romances, volume i. Imperfect at the end, wanting four or five leaves. No original title, but space is left for a long rubric (or a miniature?) at the beginning. For a fuller description see Ward, Catalogue of Romances, i, pages 342. Beg. 'Cil qui se tient et iuge au plus petit et au plus pecheor de toz mande saluz'; ends (Sommer, i, pages 279) 'et por ce que vos de cele requeste feistes ma volente ferai ge la uostre de ce dont vos me requerez'. On f. 11 is the later title 'Partie du saint Graal'. Vellum; following ii + 85. 131/2 in. x 91/2 inches First half of XIV century Gatherings of 12 leaves, numbered, with catchwords. Double columna. Sec. folio 'nos et por ce'. Initials flourished in red and blue. Cat. of 1666, f. 11; not in CMA.
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