London BL Add.10293 f.1
Ban, King of Benoic, and his brother Bohort, King of Gaunes, stand talking
together. Borders: David, crowned, slings at Goliath; 2 knights;
a nun nurses a monk or cleric, pointed out to a king on horseback by a
man holding a spear; musicians playing organ and rebec; mounted knights,
apes, dog, squirrel |
Amsterdam BPH 1ii f.37
King Claudas and his men, encamped outside, attack King Ban's castle; King
Ban and Queen Elaine ride away from their castle, King Ban looking back
in sorrow (clasped hands), Queen Elaine holding Baby Lancelot |
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London BL Add.10293 f.2
Standing before King Ban's castle of Trebes by the lake, King Ban's
seneschal plots treason with King Claudas |
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London BL Add.10293 f.3v
King Ban rides up the hill away from his castle Trebes by the lake and
looks back to see it is being destroyed (towers fall) by fire (flames). |
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London BL Add.10293 f.4
King Ban lies dead from grief on the hill by his castle Trebes from which
flames emerge; Queen Elaine bends over him, grieving, watched by her squire;
their two horses ride away and Baby Lancelot lies on the ground by the
lake. |
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London BL Add.10293 f.4v
King Claudas and his men ride towards King Bohort of Gaunes' castle Montlair,
from which Queen Evane (sister of Queen Elaine of Benoic) escapes on horseback
holding her two babies Lionel and Bohort in her arms.
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London BL Add.10293 f.5
Queen Evane enters a nunnery: a nun cuts the queen's hair with scissors,
watched by 2 nuns who stand in the convent doorway; another nun holds the
habit the queen will wear. |
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London BL Add.10293 f. 5v
Standing by the abbey where she too has become a nun, Queen Elaine (still
shown robed as a queen) sees the Lady of the Lake enter the lake with the
baby in her arms |
Amsterdam BPH 1ii f. 43v
The Lady of the Lake enters the lake holding Baby Lancelot in her arms |
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London BL Add.10293 f. 6v-a
Pharien (the knight who took King Bohort's children to safety in his lands)
returns to see King Claudas (who is having an affair with Pharien's wife)
escape from Pharien's house through the window.
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London BL Add.10293 f. 6v-c
Pharien's wife, imprisoned in a tower, looks out of a window at her landless
cousin whom she has sent for. |
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London BL Add.10293 f. 7
King Claudas, mounted, sees Pharien (accused of treason against King Claudas)
defeat a knight in a judicial duel. |
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London BL Add.10293 f. 7v
King Claudas addresses his son Dorin outside a castle where 4 knights look
out of windows. |
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London BL Add.10293 f.9
Lancelot's tutor hands an arrow to Lancelot who holds a bow in his left
hand. He will shoot the bird in the tree. |
Amsterdam BPH 1i f. 49
Lancelot's tutor strikes Lancelot's greyhound with his staff; Lancelot
breaks his bow on his tutor's head (having been rebuked for an act
of generosity). |
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