PIRAMUS ET TISBÉ

Transcription of MS B
MS B (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 19152, folios 98r –
101r)
Formerly Saint Germain fr. 1239. Vellum, late 13 th or early 14 th century, modern
binding. Three columns per page, forty-four lines per column. Contains forty texts of
varying lengths, including fabliaux, moral texts, Piramus et Tisbé, Narcisus, Florence et
Blancheflor and the romances Partonopeus de Blois, Blancandin and Floire et
Blancheflor. The modern table of contents originally omitted Piramus: ‘De Pyrame et
Thisbé. fol. 98’ has been inserted, in a different hand, between ‘Ovide de arte, mis en
rimes. fol. 93’ and ‘Le doctrinal. fol.101’. The text is preceded by the rubric ‘Ci
commence de piramo et de tysbe’. The MS has been trimmed, with the result that some
letters at the right-hand edge of certain rectos are missing. These lines are marked with
an asterisk in the transcription.
For further details, see Edmond Faral, Le Manuscrit 19152 du fonds français de la
Bibliothèque Nationale, reproduction phototypique publiée avec une introduction
(Paris: Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1934).
Transcription Notes
The positions of large initials are marked by underlined characters The scribe makes
frequent use of standard abbreviations. The standard abbreviation for par has been
transcribed per in pere and pertuis. Nasal before bl is almost always written in full,
usually as anbl– but occasionally as enbl–. The value of x is consistently us and this is
represented in the transcription. The full form of the second person pronoun is normally
uos so u 9 has been expanded accordingly;