These two volumes are about the forty-five surviving manuscripts and fragments that transmit, and sometimes illustrate, the texts of Chrétien de Troyes. Here is presented, for the first time, a photographic corpus of those manuscripts that is as complete as possible and includes all the illustrations of the illustrated manuscripts, organized according to a new interpretation of their chronology and distribution. This visual material is complemented by a catalogue of all the extant manuscripts and their illustrations and by a series of analytical essays on aspects of the codicology, palaeography, the history of style and iconography, and the history of textual transmission of the manuscripts.
The 24 colour and 435 black/white plates and figures include at least one reproduction of every manuscript and fragment, with the unfortunate exception of the fragments that have been lost since their texts were edited and of which no photograph has been preserved. The collaboration of literary scholars with art historians, codicologists, and palaeographers make this enterprise a new departure in manuscript and text studies: many of the essays are also illustrated.
The contents are:
Vol. 1.
Alison STONES: General Introduction. Terry NIXON: List of Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes: 1. By Current Shelf Order, 2. By Date Attribution, 3. By Text. Terry NIXON: Romance Collections and the Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes. Tony HUNT: Chrestien de Troyes: The Textual Problem. Margot van MULKEN: Perceval and Stemmata. Keith BUSBY: The Scribe of MSS T and V of Chrétien's
Perceval and its Continuations. Stewart GREGORY and Claude LUTTRELL: The Manuscripts of Cligés. Françoise GASPARRI, Geneviève HASENOHR, et Christine RUBY: De l'écriture à la lecture: réflexion sur les manuscrits d'Erec et Enide. Roger MIDDLETON: Coloured Capitals in the Manuscripts of Erec et Enide. Patricia STIRNEMANN: Some Champenois Vernacular Manuscripts and the Manerius Style of Illumination. Alison STONES: The Illustrated Chrétien Manuscripts and their Artistic Context. Elizabeth BURIN: The Pierre Sala Manuscript; Lori WALTERS: The Use of Multi-Compartment Opening Miniatures in the Illustrated Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes. Keith BUSBY: The Illustrated Manuscripts of Chrétien's Perceval. Keith BUSBY: Text, Miniature, and Rubric in the Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval. Angelica RIEGER: Le programme iconographique du Perceval montpelliérain, BI, Sect. Méd. H 249 (M). Lori WALTERS: The Image of Blanchefleur in MS Montpellier, BI, Sect. Méd. H 249. Laurence HARF-LANCNER: L'image et le fantastique dans les manuscrits des romans de Chrétien de Troyes. Emmanuèle BAUMGARTNER: Les scènes du Graal et leur illustration dans les manuscrits du Conte du Graal et des Continuations.
Vol. 2:
Terry NIXON: Catalogue of Manuscripts: Introduction, List of Manuscripts by Date Attribution, List of Manuscripts by Attribution of Place of Origin, List of Scribes, Artists, and Indications of Production, Catalogue. Roger MIDDLETON: Index of Former Owners. Roger MIDDLETON: Additional Notes on the History of Selected Manuscripts. Michel PASTOUREAU: Les armoiries arthuriennes. Appendices: I. Other Contents of the Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes. II. Modern Copies of Medieval Manuscripts Containing the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes. III. Manuscripts Containing Texts Attributed to Chrétien de Troyes. IV. Rubrics and Subjects of Illumination in the Romances. Bibliography: A. List of Romances of Chrétien de Troyes in Modern Editions. B. Works Cited. List of Colour Illustrations. List of Black/White Illustrations. Index of Manuscripts Cited.
The 24 colour and 435 black/white plates and figures include at least one reproduction of every manuscript and fragment, with the unfortunate exception of the fragments that have been lost since their texts were edited and of which no photograph has been preserved. The collaboration of literary scholars with art historians, codicologists, and palaeographers make this enterprise a new departure in manuscript and text studies: many of the essays are also illustrated.
The contents are:
Vol. 1.
Alison STONES: General Introduction. Terry NIXON: List of Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes: 1. By Current Shelf Order, 2. By Date Attribution, 3. By Text. Terry NIXON: Romance Collections and the Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes. Tony HUNT: Chrestien de Troyes: The Textual Problem. Margot van MULKEN: Perceval and Stemmata. Keith BUSBY: The Scribe of MSS T and V of Chrétien's
Perceval and its Continuations. Stewart GREGORY and Claude LUTTRELL: The Manuscripts of Cligés. Françoise GASPARRI, Geneviève HASENOHR, et Christine RUBY: De l'écriture à la lecture: réflexion sur les manuscrits d'Erec et Enide. Roger MIDDLETON: Coloured Capitals in the Manuscripts of Erec et Enide. Patricia STIRNEMANN: Some Champenois Vernacular Manuscripts and the Manerius Style of Illumination. Alison STONES: The Illustrated Chrétien Manuscripts and their Artistic Context. Elizabeth BURIN: The Pierre Sala Manuscript; Lori WALTERS: The Use of Multi-Compartment Opening Miniatures in the Illustrated Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes. Keith BUSBY: The Illustrated Manuscripts of Chrétien's Perceval. Keith BUSBY: Text, Miniature, and Rubric in the Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval. Angelica RIEGER: Le programme iconographique du Perceval montpelliérain, BI, Sect. Méd. H 249 (M). Lori WALTERS: The Image of Blanchefleur in MS Montpellier, BI, Sect. Méd. H 249. Laurence HARF-LANCNER: L'image et le fantastique dans les manuscrits des romans de Chrétien de Troyes. Emmanuèle BAUMGARTNER: Les scènes du Graal et leur illustration dans les manuscrits du Conte du Graal et des Continuations.
Vol. 2:
Terry NIXON: Catalogue of Manuscripts: Introduction, List of Manuscripts by Date Attribution, List of Manuscripts by Attribution of Place of Origin, List of Scribes, Artists, and Indications of Production, Catalogue. Roger MIDDLETON: Index of Former Owners. Roger MIDDLETON: Additional Notes on the History of Selected Manuscripts. Michel PASTOUREAU: Les armoiries arthuriennes. Appendices: I. Other Contents of the Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes. II. Modern Copies of Medieval Manuscripts Containing the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes. III. Manuscripts Containing Texts Attributed to Chrétien de Troyes. IV. Rubrics and Subjects of Illumination in the Romances. Bibliography: A. List of Romances of Chrétien de Troyes in Modern Editions. B. Works Cited. List of Colour Illustrations. List of Black/White Illustrations. Index of Manuscripts Cited.