Arthurian legends and the influence of French prose romance
Subtitle: the Grail, Lancelot, Tristan and related manuscripts from the British Library
Contributors: Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century; Robert, de Boron, active 13th century; Wace, approximately 1100-approximately 1175; Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century; Lacy, Norris J.; British Library. Department of Manuscripts; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library; British Library
Publisher: Adam Matthew
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Marlborough, Wiltshire
Language: eng; fre; lat; roa
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Arthurian romances; Sources; Medieval Literature; French influences; Legends; Manuscripts; Facsimiles; Merlin (Legendary character); Tristan (Legendary character); Lancelot (Legendary character); Grail; History; French language; Influence on English
Other titles: Arthurian legends; Arthurian legends :; Grail, Lancelot, Tristan and related manuscripts from the British Library
Description: Collection of 52 manuscripts (12th-16th c.) in the British Library, London. The collection, which emphasizes the prose romance tradition, includes 20 variant manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, 26 manuscripts of the French prose tradition of Chrétien de Troyes and Robert de Boron, and concludes with the Winchester manuscript of Malory's Morte D'Arthur.
Notes: This collection brings together 52 manuscripts from the British Library, dating from the 12th to the 16th centuries, which show the evolution of the Arthurian saga. It focuses on romances in prose, since it was largely in prose that versions of the legend proliferated, beginning with Geoffrey of Monmouth (c1138) and continuing in French and other languages.

Accompanied by a printed reel guide.
Table of contents: title: Grail Legend, Lancelot, and Tristan: Reel 1: Add. 10292-4 (Saint Graal, 14th c.); title: Reel 2: Royal 14 E iii (Saint Graal & Lancelot, 14th c.) ; Royal 19 C III (Saint Graal, 13th c.) ; Royal 19 C xiii (Lancelot, 13th c.); title: Reel 3: Harley 6340 (Merlin, 15th c.) ; Add. 38117 (Joseph of Arimathea, 14th c.); title: Reel 4: Egerton 2515 (Lancelot, 14th c.) ; Lansdown 757 (Lancelot, 14th c.) ; Add. 17443 (Lancelot, 13th c.) ; Royal 20 B viii (Lancelot, 13th c.); title: Reel 5: Royal 19 B vii (Lancelot, 13th, c.) ; Royal 20 C vi (Lancelot, 14th c.); title: Reel 6: Royal 20 D iv (Lancelot, 14th c.) ; Royal 20 D iii (Lancelot, 14th c.); title: Reel 7: Harley 4419 (Lancelot, 14th c.) ; Harley 6341-2 (Lancelot, 14th c.); title: Reel 8: Harley 4389 (Tristan, 14th c.) ; Add. 23929 (Tristan, 14th c.) ; Harley 49 (Tristan, 15th c.) ; Add. 5474 (Tristan, 14th c.); title: Reel 9: Royal 20 D ii (Tristan, 15th c.); title: Reel 10: Egerton 989 (Tristan, 15th c.); title: Miscellaneous: Reel 11: Add. 36614 (Chrétien de Troyes, 13th c.) ; Add. 36880 (Palamedes, 14th c.); title: Reel 12: Add. 38129 (William of Malmesbury, 15th c.) ; Cotton Vitellius C ix (Wallice) ; Cotton Titus A xix (Narrationes ... rege Arthuro); title: Geoffrey of Monmouth Chronicles: Reel 12 A: Harley 6358 (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 13th c.) ; Cotton Titus C xvii (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 12th c.) ; Harley 225 (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 12th c.) ; Harley 3773 (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 12th c.) ; Arundel 10 (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 12th c.); title: Reel 13: Arundel 403 (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 12th c.) ; Cotton Nero D viii (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 12th c.) ; Cotton Titus D xxxvii (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 13th c.) ; Add. 15732 (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 12th c.) ; Cotton Cleopatra B v (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 15th c.) ; Cotton Vespasius A xxiii (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 13th c.) ; Add. 33371 (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 12th c.) ; Stowe 56 (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 13th c.); title: Reel 14: Royal 4 C xi (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 12th c.) ; Royal 13 A iii (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 14th c.) ; Cotton Vespanius E x (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 14th c.) ; Cotton Titus A xviii (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 14th c.); title: Reel 15: Add. 15566 (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 16th c.) ; Add. 35295 (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 15th c.) ; Lansdowne 214; title: (Geoffrey of Monmouth, 15th c.) Other Important Titles: Reel 16: Add. 59678 (Malory, Morte D'Arthur, 15th c.) ; Royal 13 A xxi (Geffrei Gaimar, & Wace, 13th c.).