Fragment

St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, AQ 0372/01 (a)

Lost manuscript
GF 02
Host volume
St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, AQ 0372/01
Textual Information
Subject
French verse
Title of work

L’estoire de Griseldis

Section

ll. 32–81 and 319––67

Orientation
upright
Transcription

Full transcription provided by Atkin and Mattison (see bibliography)

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Secretary
Place of production
France
Date of production
s. xv 2/4
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Wrapper
Element of folio

Whole bifolium

Decoration

Names of speakers are rubricated

Further information
Notes

Each recto has a number at outer right foot: '2' and '6'. For the complexity this creates, see headnote of GF 02.

The outside of the fragment has been blackened. A title was later (s. xviii?) added to it. 

Bibliography

T. Atkin and J. R. Mattison, 'Remnants of Guernsey’s Medieval Manuscript Culture: A New Witness to L’estoire de Griseldis' (in preparation)

Author: David Rundle
Last Revised by David Rundle
St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, AQ 0372/01 (a) inside
St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, AQ 0372/01 (a) outside
Dimensions
Fragment

261mm (h) x 385mm (w)

Number of lines
25
Upper margin
20mm
Height of written space
155mm
Width of written space
80mm
Lower margin
22mm
Inner margin
51mm
Outer margin
33mm