- Aye d'Avignon;
- Anseïs de Carthage;
- L'image du Monde;
- the Faits des Romans;
- Florimont, by Aimon de Varennes;
- Gui de Nanteuil;
- Partenope de Blois;
- a Passion du Christ in verse;
- Renaut de Montauban;
- Le Roman d'Alexandre;
- Le Roman de Troie,
- Le Roman d'Eneas.
Bibliography
To come.
L’Image du monde, Gossuin de Metz
Summary:
An encyclopedic text concerning the natural world, with a chapter dedicated to astronomy.
MSS:
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 2173, (copied in the 13th century in Pauda). See weblink: http://www.arlima.net/eh/gossuin_de_metz.html
Edition:
Gossiun de Metz. L’Image du Monde. Edited by O.H. Proir, Lausaunne/Paris:1913.
La légende latine de S. Brandaines, avec une traduction inédite en prose et en poésie romanes, publiée par Achille Jubinal, d'après les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du roi, remontant aux XIe, XIIe et XIIIe siècles, Paris, Téchener, Sylvestre et Merklein, 1836.
Secondary Literature:
Connochie-Bourgne, Chantal. “Pourquoi et comment réécrire une encyclopédie? Deux rédactions de L’image du monde.” In Encyclopédies médiévales, Discours et savoirs, 143-154. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1998.
———. “‘Nature’ et ‘clergie’ dans l’oeuvre de vulgarisation scientifique de Gossuin de Metz (Image du monde, 1245).” In Comprendre et maîtriser la nature au Moyen Âge : mélanges d’histoire des sciences offerts à Guy Beaujouan, 19-27. Genève/Paris: Librairie Droz/Champion, 1994.
Fant C. L’Image du monde, poème inéditdu milieu du XIIIe siècle, étudié dans ses diverses rédactions françaises d’après les manuscrits des bibliothèques de Paris et de Stockholm. Upsala: Upsala Universitets Årsskrift, 1886.
Lindgren L., “Analyse de la langue de ‘L’Image du monde’ de Gossuin de Metz.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972): 499-544.
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Roman d'Eneas
Summary:
A romance in French verse, based on the Aneid of Virgil.
MS:
London, British Library 14100
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Plut XLI 44.
Edition:
Le roman d’Eneas. Edited by Martine Thiry-Stassin. Paris: Librarie H. Champion, 1985.
Secondary Literature:
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Faits des Romans
Summary:
MS:
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 293 (Venice, 14th century).
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 726 (Genoa)
Oxford, Bodlian, codices Canoniciani miscellanei, 450 (Verona, 1384)
Edition:
Li fet des Romains compilé ensemble de Saluste et de Suetoine et de Lucan, texte du XIIIe siècle, publié pour la première fois d'après les meilleurs manuscrits. Edited by L.-F. Flutre, Paris, Droz; Groningue, Wolters, 1935-1938. Reprint: Genève, Slatkine, 1977.
A Partial Edition of "Les Fais des Rommains" with a Study of its Style and Syntax: A Medieval Roman History, éd. Thomas J. McCormick, Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press (Studies in French Literature, 20), ??.
Secondary Literature:
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Queste del Sainte Graal
Summary:
MS:
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 293 (Venice, 14th century)
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 343 (Padua or Milan, 1380-1385)
Edition:
Secondary Literature:
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Chansons Françaises
Summary:
A melange of popular songs in French, interspersed with Italian songs, copied into a fifteenth-century manuscript containing primarily a collection of works in the Italian vernacular.
MS:
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Firenze, ms Strozzi- Magliabecchiano VII, 1040, ff.48-57.
Edition:
Stickney, A. “Chansons Françaises tirée d'un ms. de Florence.” Romania 8 (1879), 73-92.
Secondary Literature:
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Roman de Tristan
Summary:
MSS:
Aberystwyth, Wales, National Library of Wales, ms. 446 (14th century)*
Aberystwyth, Wales, National Library of Wales, ms. 5667 (14th century)
Florence, Bibliotheca Mediceo-Laurenziana, Laur. Ashburnamiano 123 (14th century)*
London, British Library, Add. 23929 (14th century)
London, British Library, Harley 4389 (14th century)*
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, E.40 (a. F. 3. 15)(14th century)
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, E.59 (a. T. 3. 11) (14th century)*
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 343, (14th century)
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 755, (14th century)
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 756-757, (14th century)
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 760, (14th century)*
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 1463, (14th century)*
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 12599, (13th century)
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 3536 (13th century)
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 3953 (13th century)
Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, fr. XXIII (234) (14th century)*
Tristan de léonois, MSS Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. Fonds Francias, 94; Français 755 - copied in Milan, 1320-1330.
*It has traditionally been assumed that these manuscripts were of Northern Italian origin, but some scholars have argued that they were copied in the Angevin courts of Naples.
Edition:
Secondary Literature:
Branca, Daniela Delcorno, "Per la storia del 'Roman de Tristan' in Italia," Cultura Neolatina 40 (1980): 211- 229, at 216.
B. Degenhart-A., Schmitt. “Frühe angiovinische Buchkunst in Neapel. Die Illustrierung fransösicher Unterhaltungsprosa in neapolitanischen Scriptorien zwischen 1290 und 1320.” In Festschrift Wolfgang Braunfels, ed. F. Piel and J. Traeger, 71-92. Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1977.
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Roman de Troie
Summary:
MS:
Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, D 55 Sup
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. Lat, 1505 (Central Italy, late 13th-early 14th)
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr. 782
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr. 821
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, nouv. acq. fr. 6774
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, nouv. acq. fr. 9603 (Genoa)
Vienna, Österrichische Nationalbibliothek, 2571
Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana 2433 (copied on paper in 1344 by the scribe Lucas Boni)
Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, fr. XVII (copied in Naples, 1330-1340)
St. Petersburg, Natonal Library of Russia, Fr. F.v. XIV. 3 (mid 14th century)
Editions:
Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Le Roman de Troie. Edited by Léopold Constans. 6 vols. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1904-1912.
Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Le Roman de Troie de Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Edited by Emmanuèle Baumgartner. Paris: Union Générale d’Éditions, 1987.
Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Roman de Troie (Österrichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien, Codex 2571). Edited on microfilm by Dagmar Thoss. Munich: Helga Lengenfelder, 1989.
Secondary Literature:
Jung, Marc-René. La Légende de Troie en France au Moyen Áge: analyse des versions françaises et bibliographie raisonée des manuscrits. Basel: Tübingen: Francke, 1996.
Ronci, Gabriella. “Un nuovo frammento del Roman de Troie de Benoit de Sainte-Maure,” Cultura Neolatina 48 (1988), 73-84.
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Passion, In Verse
Summary:
MS:
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fr. 821 (beginning of 14th century)
Edition:
Secondary Literature:
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Le Roman d'Alexandre
Summary:
MS:
Parma, Biblioteca Nazionale, 1206
Paris, Arsenal, 3472 (13th century)
Venice, Museo Civico VI, (mid 14th century)
Lugo, Biblioteca Communale (fragment; mid 14th)
Edition:
Secondary Literature:
Busby, Keith. “‘Codices manuscripts nudos tenemus’: Alexander and the New Codicology.” In The Medieval French Alexander, 259-273. Edited by Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
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Florimont
Summary: The story of the founding of Phillipopolis by Philip, the father of Alexander.
MS:
Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, fr. XXII
Monza, Biblioteca Capitolare, 6 21.137
Edition:
Secondary Literature:
Busby, Codex and Context, vol. 2, 614.
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Partenope de Blois
Summary:
MS:
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, nouv. acq. fr. 7516
Edition:
Secondary Literature:
Busby, Codex and Context, vol. 2, 614.
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Joufroi de Poitiers
Summary:
MS:
Copenhagen, Royal Library of Copenhagen, Gl. kgl.saml. 3555, 8*
Edition:
Joufroi de Piotiers.Edited by Percival B. ay and John L. Grigsby. Geneva/ Paris: Droz, 1972.
Secondary Literature:
Busby, Codex and Context, vol. 2, 614.
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Renaut de Montauban
Summary:
MS:
Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, fr. X 29 (Mid 14th century)
Edition:
Secondary Literature:
L’épisode Ardennais de Renaut de Montauban. 3 vols. Edited by Jacques Thomas. Brugge: De Tempel,1962.
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Aye d'Avignon
Summary:
MS:
Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Lat. XI (13th century)
Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 14635-37
Edition:
Aye d’Avignon. Edited by S.J. Borg. Geneva: Droz, 1967.
Secondary Literature:
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Anseïs de Carthage
Summary:
MS:
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr. 1598 (ms. dated to around 1300) - This manuscript is considered to have only slight "franco-italian" characteristics, but there is no doubt the work was copied in Italy.
Edition:
no edition of the Franco-italian version at this time
Secondary Literature:
