454 - ca. 1300

ca. 1300 MANUSCRIPT. (FRAGMENT). FRAGMENT OF A LITERARY MANUSCRIPT: [ALEXENDREIS SIVE GESTA ALEXANDRI MAGNI]. Manuscript on vellum, bifolio in narrow large 8º format (205 x 125 mm). Contains 35 lines per leaf in small French Gothic script. It contains part of Book VI (lines 333–402) and Book VII (lines 122–192). Five initials decorated in red and blue. It shows some slight loss of support, wax stains, and faded ink on the inside of the bifolio. Calderones, along with some marginal and interlinear corrections. Presented in a conservation slipcase. This epic poem consists of 5,464 hexameters and is the work of the French poet and theologian Gautier de Châtillon, composed between 1178 and 1182.