The Lancelot-Grail Project:
Manuscript List by Library
© Alison Stones 2007, rev. 2009, 2013, 2016


This list is based on Woledge, Micha, Bogdanow, Ponceau, Avril and Reynaud, and on first-hand study.  Earlier lists of mine appeared in 1977, 1988, 2000, 2003.  For a different orientation, see also Brandsma 2003. For a Distribution List click here.  I am grateful to Carol Chase, Irène Fabry, Martine Meuwese and Roger Middleton for their assistance.

Textual components are indicated as follows: E=Estoire, M=Merlin, SV=Suite Vulgate du Merlin, L=Lancelot (L1=En la marche de Gaulle; L2=Journey to Sorelois, L3=Conte de la Charette, L4 Suites de la Charette, L5=Agravain); Q =Queste, MA=Mort Artu.
Other Versions: J=Joseph in prose, based on Robert de Boron's verse version, often copied as selections interpolated into Estoire; for details, see O'Gorman's edition; SM=Suite du Merlin (Huth Version, not to be confused with Suite Vulgate du Merlin, see Text Editions Page), Didot-Perceval; Post-Vulgate Queste. For editions see Text Editions Page.  Square brackets [ ] enclose references to manuscripts containing non-Lancelot-Grail texts.  Fragments are excluded unless they are illustrated; excerpts interpolated into Tristan are omitted. Related copies are so cross-referenced.  Links are to libraries' sites or to our descriptions; some sites include images. 






Library and Shelf Number
 Text Branch
 Date
 Place
 Number of Illustrations

ROBERT DE BORON in verse and prose
(excluding interpolated fragments)


Paris BNF fr. 20047
 Robert de Boron in verse
 c. 1300 ?
 North France
 unillustrated
Chantilly, Musée Condé 1081(644)
 JM[Prophécies de Merlin]
 14th c.
 Italy
 unillustrated
Città del Vaticano, BAV Reg. 1687
 EJMSV[Prophécies de Merlin]


Florence, B. Marciana B. VI.24
JM

unillustrated
Florence, B. Riccardiana 2759
 JM
 14th c.
 Italy
 unillustrated
London, BL Add. 38117 (Huth) JMSM 
 c. 1310 ?
Laon or Saint-Quentin ? 
 67
Modena, BEstense E 39
JM Didot-Perceval [Lapidaire]
c. 1200-1220 ?
 North France, Champagne ?
15
New Haven, Yale Univ. Beinecke 227 JEMSV 1357 written by Jean Loles Tournai ? 164
Paris, Ars. 2996
 JM
 mid-14th c.
unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 423
 JM fragment and pious works
 mid-13th c. ?
 North France
 unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 748 (cf. BNF fr. 754 L below)
 JM
 c. 1230-50 ?
 Thérouanne ?
South France ?
 15
Paris, BNF fr. 1469 JM
 15th c. paper
unillustrated
Paris, BNF n.a.fr. 4166
 JM Didot-Perceval [Prophécies de Merlin]
 1301
 Normandy ?
 unillustrated
Tours, BM 951
 EJMSVcatchword for L1
 c. 1290
 Acre, Cyprus, or Italy ?
 133






LANCELOT-GRAIL



Aberystwyth, NLW 445
 L
 15th c.
unillustrated
Aberystwyth, NLW 5018
 L
 14th c.
unillustrated
Amsterdam BPH 1 (ex-Phillipps 1045/7[numbering problematical],
and 3630)/Oxford, Bodl. Douce 215/Manchester, Ryl.fr.1

 EML12345QMA
 c. 1315-25
 Saint-Omer, Tournai or Ghent 189
Berkeley, UCB 73 (ex-Phillipps 4377)
 QMA (MS de base of Bogdanow, Queste)
 c. 1220-30 ? (written atl)
 North France
 1
Berkeley, UCB 106 (ex-Phillipps 3643)    [Vies des pères] EMSV
 c. 1250-75
 Jumièges ?
 21
Berkeley, UCB 107 (ex-Phillipps 1279)
 L1L2L3L4
 c. 1250
 Paris ?
 5
Berlin, DSB Ham. 49
 L1 incomplete
 c. 1280-1300
 Genoa
 24
Bologna, AS b.1 bis, n.9 (see Turin BN L.III.12, Oxford, Bodl. Ash. 828 and Paris BNF fr 749)
 E fragments
 c. 1290-1300
 Thérouanne or Ghent ?
Bonn, UB 526
 EMSVL1L2L3L4L5QMA
 1286 written in Amiens by Arnulphus de Kayo
 Amiens and Cambrai or Thérouanne
 346
Boston, Boston College
see London, olim Alpine Club



Bourg, BM 55
 E
 13th c.
illustrations cut out
Brussels, BR 9246
(see BNF fr. 91 below)
 E, Guillaume de la Pierre's adaptation for Jean-Louis
de Savoie, Bishop of Geneva (see BNF fr. 91 below)
 1480
 Bourges ?
 52
part by Jean Colombe
Brussels, BR 9627-8
 QMA
 c. 1250
 Paris
 37
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 45
 L1L2L3L4L5 (copied in BL Roy. 19.B. VII)
 13th c., second half
 England ?
 unillustrated
Cambridge, UL
 EMSM
 c. 1300
 England
 unillustrated
Chantilly, Musée Condé 472(626)
 E, special version
 13th c.
 North France
 unillustrated
Chantilly, Musée Condé 476(644) [Image du monde, Health Treatise] EQMA
 1271 ns
IduM written by Jacquemin d'Acre
 North France
 unillustrated
Chantilly, Musée Condé 643(307)
 E with J interpolations MSV
 15th c.
unillustrated
Chantilly, Musée Condé 1111(649)
 MA
 1288 written by Bonifacio de Gualandis for Brexianus de Salis, Podesta of Modena
 Genoa ? Modena ?
 4
Chicago, Newberry f21Ry.34 12261 (cf. Paris, Ars. 3347 below)
 L1L2L3L4
 c. 1250
 Paris
 3
Città del Vaticano, BAV Reg. 1489
 L

1
Città del Vaticano, BAV Reg. 1517
 [Garin de Monglane] M
 14th c.
1
Città del Vaticano, BAV Pal. lat. 1967
 MA

1
Copenhagen, KB Thott 1087
 MA
 c. 1220-30 ?
 North France
 unillustrated
Darmstadt, HLB 2534
 EMSVL
 c. 1300
 Arras
 3
Dijon, BM 527
Facsimile
 Q[Tristan]
 c. 1450-60
 Tours-Angers illustrated by the Master of Charles du Maine (younger brother of René d'Anjou)
 45
Escorial, BR P.II.23
 L
 14th c.
 Spain
 unillustrated
Florence, Laur. Ash. 48 (121)    
Q
 1319
 Avignon
 62
Fribourg, BCant.L 310
 L
 c. 1300
unillustrated
Geneva-Cologny, Bodmer 147 (ex-Ph.1046)   
E with J interpolations [Gospel extracts, Genesis extracts and other interpolations]M[Histoire de Troie]SV[interpolations][Maurice de Sully, Sermons]QMA
 c. 1300
 South or  East France ?
167
Geneva-Cologny, Bodmer 105 (4 vols.)
 LQMA
 15th c. paper
 Champagne ?
 45 miniatures on parchment added
Giessen, UB 93-94
 LQMA, many lacuae
 15th c.
unillustrated
Grenoble, BM 865
 L
 13th c.
unillusrated
London, olim Alpine Club (now dispersed, see Sotheby's
2.xii.97 lot 65 (1-7), 6.vii.00, lots 23, 24, 25, 26)
 L1L2L3L4L5QMA cuttings
 c. 1450
 Paris, illustrated by the Dunois Master, Jean Haincelin, for Prigent de Coëtivy, Admiral of France (d 1450)
 34
London, BL Add.5474
 [Tristan]L1
 c. 1295
 Thérouanne or Cambrai
 23
London, BL Add.10292-4 
EMSVL1L2L3L4L5QMA 1317 ns Flanders or Artois 747
London, BL Add. 17443
 QMA
 late 13th c.
 Douai ?
 2
London, BL Add. 32125
 [Brut] EMSV [Estoire des Englés]
14th c.
 England
 1 drawing
London, BL Egerton 2515
 L
 14th c.
unillustrated
London, BL Harley 4419
 L
 c. 1280-1300
 Genoa
 1
London, BL Harley 6340
 MSV
 15th c.
unillustrated
London, BL Harley 6341-2
 L1L2L3L4L5, Q announced but absent
 15th or 16th  c. paper
unillustrated
London, BL Landsdowne 757          
L
 13th c.
unillustrated
London, BL Roy.14.E.III    
EQMA
 c. 1315-25
 Flanders or Artois
 116
London, BL Roy.19.B.VII
 L1L2L3L4L5 (copied from CCC 45, see E. Kennedy)
 14th c.
 England
 unillustrated
London, BL Roy.19 C.XII
 E
 13th c.
unillustrated
London, BL Roy. 19.C.XIII
 L5QMA
 13th c.
 North France
 1
London, BL Roy. 20 B.VIII
 L5
 13th c.
 North France
 unillustrated
London, BL Roy. 20.C.VI
 L5QMA c. 1280-1300 London
 3
London, BL Roy. 20.D.III L1
 14th c. England
 unillustrated
London, BL Roy. 20.D.IV L3 incomplete, L4L5 incomplete
 c. 1315 Arras
 12
Lyon, BM Palais des Arts 77
 L5QMA
 c. 1280-1300
 Thérouanne ?
 unillustrated
Madrid, BN 485
 L
 14th c.
unillusrated
Manchester, see Amsterdam



Le Mans, MM 354
 E with J interpolations
 c. 1280 written by Walterus de Kayo
 Douai
 17
New Haven, Yale Univ., Beinecke 229
(see BNF fr. 95 below)
 L5QMA
 c. 1290
 Thérouanne
 166
New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib. M.38
see below

Special version


New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib. M.207-8

EMSV

http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/thumbs/77100

 15th c.
 Central France ?
 32
New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib. M.805-6
 L1L2L3L4L5
 c. 1310-20
 Amiens, Laon, Noyon or Saint-Quentin
 175
New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib. M.807

QMA

http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=147056

 c. 1470
 Central France ?
 2
Nottingham, University, WLC Lm7
 EMfragment
 early 13th c.
North France ?
 unillustrated
Oxford, Bodl. Ash. 828
(see Bologna AS b.1.bis and Turin BN L.III.12)
 L1 incomplete
 c. 1300
 Thérouanne or Ghent
 40
Oxford, Bodl. Digby 223
 L5QMA
 c. 1280
 Douai
 12
Oxford, Bodl. Douce 178
 EMSV
 c. 1270-1300
 Bologna ? Venice ?
 162
Oxford, Bodl. Douce 199
 L5Q
 c. 1320-30
 Paris ?
 32
Oxford, Bodl. Douce 215
see Amsterdam



Oxford, Bodl. Douce 303
 E
 c. 1280
 Douai ?
 2
Oxford, Bodl. Rawl. D. 874
 QMA
 15th c.
 Italy
 unillustrated
Oxford, Bodl. Rawl. D. 899
 L5QMA
 c. 1250
 Soissons ?
 2
Oxford, Bodl. Rawl. Q. b. 6
(see St Petersburg below)
 L1L2L3L4L5QMA
 c. 1310 written by Ernoul d'Amiens
 Paris
 212
Paris, Ars. 2997
 ME[Quinze signes]
 mid-13th c. ?
 North France
 2
Paris, Ars. 3347 (cf. Chicago, Newberry f21Ry.34 12261 above)
 L5QMA
 c. 1250
 Paris
 3
Paris, Ars. 3348
 E
 14th c.
1
Paris, Ars. 3349
 E
 1466 paper, written by T. Boutechou
unillustrated
Paris, Ars. 3350
see below
 Special abridged version



Paris, Ars. 3479-80
 EMSVL1L2L3L4L5QMA
 c. 1406 sold by Jacques Raponde to Jean sans Peur, Duke of Burgundy ?
 Paris
 130
Paris, Ars. 3481
(see BNF fr. 105 below; see also BNF fr 9123)
 L
 c. 1320-30
 Paris, illustrated by the
Sub-Fauvel Master
78
Paris, Ars. 3482
 MSVL5incomplete,QMA c. 1350 Paris ?
 136
Paris, Ars. 5218
 Q
 1351 written, illuminated and bound
by Pierart dou Thielt
 Tournai
 3
Paris, Maz. 3886
 L
 15th c.
unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 91
(see BR 9246 above)
 MSV  Guillaume de la Pierre's adaptation for Jean-Louis
de Savoie, Bishop of Geneva   		1480-82
 Bourges
 16
part by Jean Colombe
Paris, BNF fr. 95
(see New Haven Yale 229 above)
 EMSV[Sept Sages, Pénitence Adam]
 c. 1290
 Thérouanne
 163
Paris, BNF fr. 96
 EMSVL1L2L3
 c. 1440-55
 Angers or Poitiers, by the Maître d'Adelaïde de
Savoie
 36 + spaces
Paris, BNF fr. 98
 EMSVL1L2L3L4L5QMA
 15th c.
unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 105
(see Ars. 3481 above, and BNF fr. 9123)
 EMSVL1 announced but absent
 c. 1320-30
 Paris, illustrated by the
Sub-Fauvel Master 		127
Paris, BNF fr. 110
 EMSVL1L2L3L4L5QMA
 c. 1295
 Thérouanne or Cambrai
 99
Paris, BNF fr. 111
 L1L2L3L4L5QMA
 c. 1480-85 for Yvon le Fou, sénéchal de Poitiers, grant veneur de France (d. 1488)
 Poitiers
 over 50 by the artist of BNF fr. 22500
Paris, BNF fr. 112
 Special Version for Jacques d'Armagnac (ed. Pickford)
 c. 1470
 Central France
 258
Paris, BNF fr. 113-116
 EML1L2L3L4L5QMA
 c. 1475 for Jacques d'Armagnac
 Central France
 209
Paris, BNF fr. 117-120
 EMSVL1L2L3L4L5QMA
 c. 1406 sold by Jacques Raponde to Jean Duc de Berry
 Paris
 131 by the Master of Berry's Cleres Femmes
Paris, BNF fr. 121
 L1L2L3 incomplete
 15th c.
 West France
 1
Paris, BNF fr. 122
 L3 incomplete, L5QMA
 1344
 Tournai
 120
Paris, BNF fr. 123
 L5QMA
 c. 1275 for Blanche d'Artois and Edmund Crouchback
 London
 90
Paris, BNF fr. 332 (cf. BNF fr, 1426)
 MSV
 15th c. paper
unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 333
 L5
 c. 1320
 Paris
 36
Paris, BNF fr. 337
 M[Livre d'Artus]
 c. 1230-40 ?
 North France
 unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 339
 L1L2L3L4L5QMA
 c. 1250
 Paris ?
 120
Paris, BNF fr. 341 (cf. BNF fr. 24367)
 L1
 14th c.
 North France or England
 unillustrated; elegant penflourishing
Paris, BNF fr. 342
 L5QMA
 1274 written by a female scribe
 Douai ?
 92
Paris, BNF fr. 343
 Post-Vulgate Q[Tristan]MA c. 1380
 Milan
 119
Paris, BNF fr. 344
(see Private Collection Lebaudy)
Gallica
 EMSVL1L2L3L4L5QMA
 c. 1290-1300
 Metz or Verdun
 344(sic)
Paris, BNF fr. 354
 L5 incomplete
 c. 1280-1300
 Genoa
 22
Paris, BNF fr. 747
(cf. BNF fr. 751)
 EMSV, L1 announced but absent [MS de base of Micha's ed. of M]
 c. 1230-50 ?
 North France
 3
Paris, BNF fr. 749 (see Bologna AS b.1.bis, Oxford Bodl. Ash.828, Turin BN L.III.12) EJ(frags)MSV
 c. 1300
 Thérouanne or Ghent ?
 126
Paris, BNF fr. 751
(cf. BNF fr 747)
 L1L2L3L4L5 incomplete, QMA
 c. 1230-50 ?
 North France
 1
Paris, BNF fr. 752
 L1L2 incomplete
 c. 1220-30 earliest ?
 Champagne ?
attrib. to England
unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 753
 L1 incomplete
 15th c. paper
unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 754 (see BNF fr. 748 above)
 L1 incomplete, with M interpolated
 c. 1230-50 ?
 Thérouanne or South France ?
 27
Paris, BNF fr. 767
 L1L2 incomplete
 c. 1300
 Tuscany
 unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 768A
 L [MS de base of Kennedy's edition of the non-cyclic L]
 c. 1220-30 ?
 Champagne ?
 1
Paris, BNF fr. 768B
 Q
 14th c.
unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 769
 E
 c. 1340 ?
 Tournai and England ?
 5 and unfinished later drawings
Paris, BNF fr. 770  
E with J interpolations MSV[Histoire d'Outremer et du roi Saladin, La fille du Comte de Ponthieu, L'Ordre de chevalerie] c. 1285
 Douai
 140
Paris, BNF fr. 771
 L5Q
 c. 1240-50 ?
 North France
 2
Paris, BNF fr. 773
 L1L2L3 incomplete
 c. 1290-1300
 Bologna ?
 1
Paris, BNF fr. 1422-4
 L5incomplete,QMA
 c. 1320-45
 Tournai
 73
Paris, BNF fr. 1426 (cf. BNF fr. 332)
 E
 15th c. paper
unillustrated; note for a miniature on f. 158v
Paris, BNF fr. 1427
 E
 1504, written by F[r]. J. de Rochemeure
unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 1430
 L1
 mid-13th c.
 Cistercian ?
 elegant penflourished initials cf. Pontigny MSS
Paris, BNF fr. 1446
 M special version by Baudouin Butor

unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 1466
 L1L2, L3 announced but absent

unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 2455
 EM(incomplete)
 says it was made for Philippe Auguste (f. 293)
before 1223 but this copy dates c. 1300
 Paris ?
 unillustrated
Paris, BNF fr. 9123
(see Paris, Ars. 3481; see also BNF fr. 105)
 Rubric List, EMSV
 c. 1320-30
 Paris, illustrated by the
Sub-Fauvel Master		 167
Paris, BNF fr. 12573
 L5QMA c. 1310 ?
 Arras ?
 78
Paris, BNF fr. 12580
 L5QMA
 c. 1290 ?
 Paris or Acre, illumianted by the Hospitaller Master
 3
Paris, BNF fr. 12581
 Q[literary miscellany]
 1284 written by Michael nomine felix
 Champagne ?
 1
Paris, BNF fr. 12582
 E, catchword for M
 c. 1250 ?
 Metz ? South France ?
 24
Paris, BNF fr. 16998
 L5
late 13th c.
 Bologna
 1
Paris, BNF fr. 16999
 L1L2L3L4
 c. 1340-50
 Paris ?
 115
Paris, BNF fr. 19162
 EMSV
 c. 1275-85
 Thérouanne or Cambrai
 83
Paris, BNF fr. 24367 (cf. BNF fr. 341)
 MA
 14th c.
 England ? North France ?
 elegant penflourishing
Paris, BNF fr. 24394
 EMSV
 c. 1275-85
 Thérouanne or Cambrai
 71
Paris, BNF fr. 25520
 QMA
 c. 1290-1300 ?
 England
 1
Paris, BNF n.a.fr. 934 no. 28 M fragment
 late 14th c.
 Western France ?
 1
Paris BNF n.a.fr. 1119
 L5QMA

1
Paris, BNF n.a.fr. 4380
 MA
 13th c. second quarter ?
 North France
 unillustrated
Paris, BNF n.a.fr. 5237
 ML5MA fragments
 c. 1290-1300
 Thérouanne
 elegant penflourished initials
Paris, BNF n.a.fr. 11198, ff. 2-3
 E fragments
 13th c.
elegant penflourished initial
Private Collection (Lebaudy, olim
Phillipps 1047)
 EM
 c. 1290-1310
 Metz or Verdun
 129
Private Collection Japan (olim Phillipps 8230; H.P. Kraus Cat. 153, no. 44)
 L
 13th c.
2
Private Collection Cambridge
 L fragment
 c. 1300
 Naples ?
 1
Private Collection La Spezia
see London olim Alpine Club



Private Collection Switzerland (olim Bodmer unnumbered, Gunther Cat. 3 no, 11, Tenschert Cat. 16 no. 6-7, Kraus Cat. 165 no. 9, olim Clumber, Newcastle 937)
 EMSV[Vie de du Guesclin]
 c. 1400-10
 Paris ?
Ravenna, BClassense 454
 Q

initials cut out
Rennes, BM 255
 EML1L2 (incomplete)
 c. 1220
 Paris ? Champagne ?
 64
Rouen, BM 1054
L1
 c. 1300
 Paris ?
 1
Rouen, BM 1055
 L
 c. 1300
 Italy
 unillustrated
St Petersburg, NLR Fr. F.v.XV.5
(see Oxford, Bodl. Rawl.Q.b.6 above)
E with J interpolations c. 1310
 Paris
 43
Turin, BN *1688 (L.V.30)
 L
 1402

Turin, BN L.III.12 (see Bologna AS b.1 bis, n.9; Oxford Bodl. Ash.828; BNF fr. 749) MSV
 c. 1280-1300
 Thérouanne or Ghent
 20
Udine, Bibl.Arcivescovile 64/177    
Facsimile
 Q
 14th c.
 Genoa
 34
Venice, BMarciana XI (254)
 L5 incomplete
 c. 1280-1300
 Genoa
Venice, BMarciana XII (255)
 L5 incomplete
 c. 1280-1300 Genoa
Venice, BMarciana Fr.Z.15 (228)
 [Roman d'Artus]
 c. 1300
Naples ?
Venice, BMarciana Fr.XXI
 Post-Vulgate Q fragment
 c. 1325-50 ?
 Mantua ?
Venice, BMarciana App. Cod. XXIX M [Prophécies de Merlin]
 14th c.
unillustrated ?

ABRIDGED VERSION of the whole cycle


New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib. M.38
Special version written for Ysembert de Rollin,
bailli de Rymeries by Loys de Rymeries		 1479 Bruges unillustrated
Paris, Ars. 3350		 Special abridged version
 15th c. paper
unillustrated; space left bank on f. 1


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