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A late 15th century manuscript containing part of the romance of Lancelot du Lac, which agrees closely with the 1513 Paris edition, vol. i, f. cxlv, vo-vol. ii, f. xxi, vo and corresponds as to substance with H. O. Sommer's edition of Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, pt ii (Washington, Carnegie Institution, 1911), pp. 5-222, though differing widely in text from the latter. When complete, the text must have begun, like Harley MS 6341 (see H. L. D. Ward, Catalogue of Romances, vol. i, 1883, p. 355), with the departure of Lancelot and 'Gallehoz' [Gallehault] from King Arthur's court (Paris ed., i, f. cxliiii; Sommer's ed., ii, p. 1). The given title of the manuscript is taken from the colophon ('Cy fine Gallehoz') but the death of Gallehault occurs on p. 254. The contents of the manuscript, including the inappropriate colophon, are practically identical with those of the first part (ff. 1-142b) of Harley MS 6341 (late 15 cent., paper), for description of which see Ward, op. cit., p. 355.

A manuscript, early 16th century, containing part of the French prose romance of Tristan, transcribed by [Pierre] Sala (c. 1457-1529), who has prefixed a dedication to the French king in 22 lines, beginning 'Pour obeyr, sire, au commandement ...' and naming himself 'Vostre Sala, très-humble en vostre chambre'; this dedication is printed in the Louis Philippe sale-cat. and also (less accurately) in La Croix du Maine and Du Verdier, Bibliothèques Françoises, vol. V (Paris, 1773), p. 342, reprinted by G. Guigue in his edition of Pierre Sala's Le Livre d'Amitié (Lyon, 1884), p. 50. The manuscript is illustrated with coloured drawings.