![]() ![]() Although Alison Stones has given thorough consideration to higher quality Queste manuscripts, such as London, British Library, MS Royal 14 E. The large number of generally well-preserved images among MSS Rawlinson Q.b.6, Arsenal 3482, and Arsenal 5218 renders them ideal subjects for a case study of early fourteenth-century French Arthurian illumination, as does their status as under-researched Arthurian manuscripts. Of these twelve, this study focuses on three manuscripts that were produced in northern France (Paris and Tournai) in the first half of the fourteenth century, contain the complete Queste text, and are illuminated throughout with narrative miniatures. Of the approximately 200 manuscripts that contain part or all of the Vulgate Lancelot-Graal cycle, twelve were produced in France during the fourteenth century. 5218, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Q.b.6-this article considers the visual intertwining of the sacred and secular as found in what is arguably the most inherently religious French Arthurian legend. ![]() ![]() Through an examination of three fourteenth-century illuminated manuscripts of the Vulgate La Queste del saint Graal -Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, MSS Arsenal fr. The penultimate Vulgate legend, La Queste del saint Graal, is a striking example of the intertwining of chivalry and Christianity in late medieval French culture. ![]()
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