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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