The Lancelot-Grail Project:
Studies of the Lancelot-Grail Manuscripts, Texts, and Illistrations
© Alison Stones 2009




SELECT STUDIES OF LANCELOT-GRAIL MANUSCRIPTS, TEXTS, and ILLUSTRATIONS

Items are listed in chronological order within categories

Manuscript Lists
See also text editions page.
Woledge, Brian.  Bibliographie des romans et nouvelles en prose française (Geneva,1954), pp. 71-79, Supplément (Geneva: Droz, 1975), 50-59.
Micha, Alexandre. 'Les manuscrits du Merlin en prose,' Romania 79 (1958), 78-94, 145-74.
id., 'Les manuscrits du Lancelot en prose,' Romania 81 (1960), 145-87; Romania 84 (1963), 28-60 and 478-99.
Stones, Alison.  'The Earliest Illustrated Prose Lancelot Manuscript ?' Reading Medieval Studies, 3 (1977), 3-44, list of illustrated mss on pp. 42-44.
ead., 'Aspects of Arthur's Death in Medieval Illumination',  The Passing of Arthur: New Essays in Arthurian Tradition, ed. Christopher Baswell and William Sharpe (New York: Garland, 1988), 52-101, illustrated manuscripts listed at 87-95.
Delcorno Branca, Daniela.  'Tradizione italiana dei testi arturiani.  Note sul Lancelot,' Medioevo Romanzo 17 (1992), 215-50.  Lancelot-Grail in Italy.
Brandsma, F.  'Lancelot part 3,' Arthurian Literature 19, 2003, 117-33 (omits Lancelot-Grail manuscripts that lack the Lancelot).
Middleton, R.  'Manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England and Wales: Some Books and their Owners,' in A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, ed. Carol R. Dover (Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003), 219-35.
id., 'The Manuscripts,' in Arthur of the French, ed. Glyn Burgess and Karen Pratt (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), 8-92.

Lancelot-Grail
Kennedy, E.M.  Lancelot and the Grail (Oxford and New York, 1985).
Micha, A.  Essais sur le cycle du Lancelot-Graal (Geneva, 1987).
Kibler, W.W., ed.  The Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Austin, TX 1994).
Dover, C. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, ed. Carol R. Dover (Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003).

Grail material
Les Romans du Graal dans la littérature des XIIe et XIIIe siècles.  Colloque internationaux du C.N.R.S. 1954 (Paris, 1966).
Owen, D.D.R.  The Evolution of the Grail Legend (Edinburgh and London, 1968).
Frappier, J.  Autour du Graal (Geneva, 1977).
Leupin, A.  Le Graal et la littérature, Etude sur la Vulgate arthurienne en prose (Lausanne, 1982).
Séguy, M.  Les romans du Graal ou le signe imaginé (Paris, 2001).
Combes, A. and A. Bertin, Écritures du Graal, XII-XIIIe siècles (Paris, 2001).

Estoire
Bertoni, G.  Materiali per la storia della leggenda del san Gral in Francia, Testi Romanzi 1 (Rome: Maglione, 1930).
Ponceau, Jean-Paul.  Étude de la tradition manuscrite de l'Estoire del saint Graal, roman du XIIIe siècle, Thèse du Doctorat de Troisième Cycle, Université de Paris-IV-Sorbonne, 1986.

Merlin
Micha, A. Étude sur le Merlin de Robert de Boron, roman du XIIIe siècle (Geneva, 1980).
Jeunesse et genèse du royaume arthurien: les "Suites" romanesques du "Merlin en prose" (Actes du colloque des 27 et 28 avril 2007, École normale supérieure, Paris), ed. Nathalie Koble with Patrick Moran, Amandine Mussou et Anne Salamon (Orléans, 2007).

Lancelot
Lot, F.  Etude sur le Lancelot en prose (Paris, 1918).
Micha, A.  'La tradition manuscrite du Lancelot en prose,' Romania 85 (1964), 293-318 and 478-517.
Dufournet, J. ed.  Approches du Lancelot en prose (Geneva and Paris, 1984).
Delcorno Branca, D.  Tristano e Lancillotto in Italia: studi di letteratura italiana (Ravenna: Longo, 1998).
Combes, A.  Les voies de l'aventure: réécriture et composition romanesque dans le Lancelot en prose (Paris, 2001).

Queste
Breillat, P. 'La Quête du Saint-Graal en Italie', Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'École française de Rome, 54 (1937),  262-300.
Pauphilet, A.  Étude sur la Queste del saint Graal attribuée à Gautier Map (Paris, 1921, repr. 1968).

Mort Artu
Fox, Marjorie B. La Mort le roi Artu, Étude sur les manuscrits, les sources et la composition de l'oeuvre (Paris, 1933).  Lists mss pp. 3-31.
Frappier, Jean. Etude sur la Mort Artu (Paris, 1936; rev. Geneva, 1961).
Trachsler, R.  Clôtures du cycle arthurien, étude et textes (Geneva, 2000).
Greene, V.  Le sujet et la mort dans la Mort Artu (Saint-Genouph, 2002).
The Mort Artu in Yale 229, ed. E. Willingham, 2 vols. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008).

Special Version: Paris, BNF fr. 112
Pickford, C. E. L'Évolution du roman arthurien en prose vers la fin du moyen âge d'après le manuscrit 112 du fonds français de la Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, 1960).

Other Versions
Trachsler, R.  Merlin l'enchanteur: étude sur le Merlin de Robert de Boron (Paris, 2000).
Micha, A.  Étude sur le 'Merlin' de Robert de Boron (Geneva, 1980).
Bogdanow, F.  The Romance of the Grail: A Study of the Structure and Genesis of a Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Prose Romance (Manchester and New York, 1966).
Gardner, E.G.  The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature (London, 1930).

Studies of Lancelot-Grail Illustration
Loomis, Laura Hibbard and Roger Sherman Loomis, Arthurian Legends in Medieval Art (New York: Modern Language Association, 1938).  The fundamental study.
Yvon, Jacques.  L'illustration des romans arthuriens du XIIIe au XVe siècle (Positions des thèses de l'École des Chartes, 1948). Limited to BNF MSS.
Stones, Alison.  'The Earliest Illustrated Prose Lancelot Manuscript ?' Reading Medieval Studies, 3 (1977), 3-44.  Argues for a date in the early 1220s for Rennes, BM 255 (Estoire, Merlin, Lancelot, ending incomplete at Sommer IV
ead., 'Another Short Note on Rylands French 1,' in Romanesque and Gothic, Essays forGeorge Zarnecki, ed.N. Stratford (Bury St. Edmunds: Boydell and Brewer, 1987), 185-192.
ead., 'Some Aspects of Arthur's Death in Medieval Illumination', The Passing of Arthur: New Essays in Arthurian Tradition, ed. Christopher Baswell and William Sharpe (New York: Garland, 1988), 52-101, illustrated Mort Artu manuscripts listed at 87-95.
ead., 'Arthurian Art since Loomis,' Arturus Rex, II.  Acta Conventus Lovaniensis 1987, eds. W. Van Hoecke, G. Tournoy, W. Verbeke. (Leuven: Leuven UP, 1991), 21-78.
Blackman, Susan A.  The Manuscripts and Patronage of Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours (1433-1477), 2 vols. Ph. D. Diss. University of Pittsburgh, 1993 (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1994).  Important study of the illustrations in BNF fr. 112, 113-116, 117-120.
Stones, A.  'Images of Temptation, Seduction and Discovery in the Prose Lancelot: a Preliminary Note,' Festschrift Gerhard Schmidt, Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, 46-47 (1993-4), 725-35.
Blackman, S.  'Recent attributions of manuscripts to the Collections of Jacques d'Armagnac,' Manuscripta 39 (1995), 30-32
ead., 'Observations sur les manuscrits religieux de Jacques d'Armagnac,' (tr. C. de Mérindol), Livres et bibliothèques, XIIIe-XVe siècle, Cahiers de Fanjeaux 31 (1996), 371-86.
ead., 'A Pictorial Synopsis of Arthurian Episodes for Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours,' in Keith Busby, ed., Word and Image in Arthurian Romance (New York: Garland, 1996), 3-57.  Comparative Tables of illustrations in MSS BNF fr. 112, 113-116, 117-120.
Stones, A.  'The Illustrations in BN fr 95 and Yale 229, Prolegomena to a Comparative Study,' in Word and Image (1996), 206-83.
Dover, C.  'Imagines historiarum: Text and Image in the French prose Lancelot,' ibid., 79-104.
Hoffman, Donald L.  'Seeing the Seer: Images of Merlin in the Middle Ages and Beyond,' ibid., 105-131.
Stones, A.  'Illustrating Lancelot and Guinevere,' in Lancelot and Guinevere, A Casebook, ed. Lori Walters (New York: Garland, 1996, repr. 2002), 125-57.
Walters, Lori.  'Wonders and illuminations, Pierart dou Tielt and the Queste del saint Graal,' in Word and Image (1996), 339-72.
Meuwese, M.  'De animatie van margedecoratie in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail",' Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 12 (1998), 2-13.
Stones, A.  'Les débuts de l'héraldique dans l'illustration des romans arthuriens,' in Les Armoriaux, ed. Hélène Loyau and Michel Pastoureau, Cahiers du léopard d'or 8 (1998), 395-420.
ead. 'Teaching and Research on the Web: Three Sites,' in Computing and Visual Culture: Representatio and Interpretation, ed. Tanja Szrajber, (Fourth Annual CHArt Conference), (London: CHArt, 1999), 111-22.
Meuwese, M. ‘Three Illustrated Prose Lancelots from the same Atelier’, Text and Image: Studies in the French Illustrated Book from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 81/3), ed. D.J. Adams, A. Armstrong (1999), 97-125.
Stones, A. 'The Grail in Rylands French 1 and its Sister Manuscripts,' ibid., 55-95.
ead., The Lancelot-Graal Project,' in New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscripts, ed. Derek Pearsall (York Medieval Studies), (Ashbridge: Brewer, 2000), 167-82.
Kennedy, E.  'The Placing of Miniatures in Relation to the Pattern of Interlace in Two Manuscripts of the Prose Lancelot,' in "Por le soie amisté": Essays in Honor of Norris J. Lacy, ed. Keith Busby and Catherine M. Jones (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), 269-82.
Stones, A.  'Seeing the Grail,' in The Grail, A Casebook, ed. Dhira Mahoney (New York: Garland, 2000), 301-66.
Meuwese, M.  ‘Effen ridders en kleurige bomen’, Themanummer Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen: De Middeleeuwen in kleur, 15 (2001), 228-237. Greene, V.  'The Bed and the Boat: Illustrations of the Demoiselle d'Escalot's Story in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Mort Artu,' Arthuriana, 12 (2002), 25-49.
ead. 'Inaccurate Instructions and Incorrect Interpretations. Errors and Deliberate Discrepancies in Illustrated Prose Lancelot Manuscripts,' Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society, 54, 2002, 311-44.
Middleton, see Manuscript List above.
Stones, A. 'Mise en page' in the French Lancelot-Grail: the First Hundred and Fifty Years of the Illustrative Tradition,' in A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, ed. Carol R. Dover (Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003), 125-44.
ead. 'Seeing the Walls of Troy,' Manuscripts in Transition, ed. B. Dekeyzer and J. Van den Stock (Leuven: Peeters, 2005), 161-78.
ead. 'Illustration and the Fortunes of Arthur,' The Fortunes of King Arthur, ed. N.J. Lacy (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), 116-65.
Meuwese, M. 'Crossing Borders: Text and Image in Arthurian Manuscripts, in Arthurian Literature 24, The European Dimensions of Arthurian Literature, ed. Bart Besamusca and Frank Brandsma, Woodbridge, 2007, 157-77.
Stones, A. 'The Illustrations of Mort Artu in Yale 229: Formats, Choices, and Comparisons,' in The Mort Artu in Yale 229, ed. E. Willingham (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), 263-316. 

 
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