Selected Images from the MSS

354.1.

MS Ashmole 828 Folio 1r (Frame 1)

Upper margin: conflation of two scenes. Scene 1: On the left, the two brothers: Ban de Benoyc and Bohort of Gaunes (S III 1/1-5). Scene 2: On the right, King Ban accompanied by Queen Elaine leaves the castle of Trebes to appeal to Arthur. They are accompanied by a squire holding the infant Lancelot and a young servant driving a packhorse laden with treasure (S III 7/20-37).

Lower margin: Two knights jousting on horseback.

Lower margin, right corner: Ape juggling with two sticks, second ape playing musical instrument (portative organ?).

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MS Ashmole 828 Folio 1r (Detail) (Frame 1)

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MS Ashmole 828 Folio 13r (Frame 26)

Lancelot is taught by a master to shoot a rabbit with bow and arrows.

A lady watches from the castle window (S III 33/28-37).

354.5.

MS Douce 199 Folio 44v (Frame 6)

Conflation of two scenes. Fearing that Lancelot is dead, Guinevere, crowned and bare-breasted, falls ill and takes to her bed (S V 60/29-32). Bohort and Lionel visit her, and she gives Bohort her ring (S V 62/39-40) (M IV/117:1xxiii, 11) to give to Lancelot should they find him alive. On the right, Bohort, Lionel and another knight, in search of Lancelot, ride on horseback in the forest (S V 63/15-16) (M IV/118:lxxiii, 11).

354.5.

MS Douce 199 Folio 44v (Detail) (Frame 7)

354.5.

MS Douce 199 Folio 161v (Frame 36)

Having rescued Lionel at the Strange Island [Ille Estrange], Lancelot, accompanied by Lionel, arrives at the Abbey of Small Alms [Abbaye de la Petite Aumosnes] (S V 231/32-39) (M V 82:1xxxix, 1). NOTE: in text, Lionel is wounded and rides double with Lancelot; in the miniature there are two knights on two horses.

357.1.

MS Rawl Q. b. 6 Folio 3r (Detail) (Frame 6)

King Ban, Lancelot's father, standing on a hill sees his castle burning (S III 12/29-35).

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MS Rawl Q. b. 6 Folio 8v (Detail) (Frame 18)

Lancelot, watched by the Dame du Lac, is taught by a master to shoot birds with bow and arrow (S III 33/33-37)

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MS Rawl Q. b. 6 Folio 11v (Detail) (Frame 22)

Adragain chastises King Arthur at a feast in London for not helping Ban and Bohort against Claudas (S III 45/23-41).