Appendix: Manuscripts and Printed Editions of the Various Mélusine Versions (up to c. 1600)

Summary

Jean d’Arras, Mélusine, ou La noble histoire de Lusignan (HM)

Manuscripts

Brussels, KBR, ms. 10390 (second half 15th cent., Picardy or southern Low Countries)

London, BL, Harley 4418 (c. 1460, around Amiens)

London, BL, Cotton Otho D II (in England in the early 15th cent.; damaged by fire)

Madrid, Biblioteca nacional de España, ms. 2148 (c. 1460–90, northern France?)

Morbihan, Archives départementales, fragment Rosenzweig

Paris, BnF, Arsenal, ms. 3353 (c. 1420–30, around Paris?)

Paris, BnF, français, ms. 1482 (first half 15th cent.)

Paris, BnF, français, ms. 1484 (after 1470, northern France or Burgundian Low Countries)

Paris, BnF, français, ms. 1485 (first quarter 15th cent.)

Paris, BnF, français, ms. 5410 (late 15th cent., possibly 1492?)

Paris, BnF, nouvelles acquisitions françaises, ms. 21874 (c. 1450–75, central France?)

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, ms. 2575 (mid-15th cent., northern France)

Warwickshire, Upton House, Bearsted Collection, nos. 192–203 (after 1480, central France)

Manuscripts sold at auction, current location unknown

London, Sotheby's Clumber sale, 6 December 1937, Lot 952 (c. 1470)

Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 18 March 1879, Lot 30 (c. 1460–80)

Printed Editions

Editio princeps

Geneva, Adam Steinschaber, August 1478

ISTC: ij00218380, USTC: 71174, GW: 12649

Known copies: Geneva, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, HF. 5250 Rés (incomplete); Paris, BnF, Rés Y2 400 (incomplete); Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Inc. 1284 (incomplete); Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria XV.IV.20 (incomplete); St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, 9.4.4.8 (incomplete); Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Lm 2° 17

Incunabula

Lyon, Martin Husz, after 1479

ISTC: ij00218385, USTC: 71175, GW: 12560

Known copy: BnF, Res Fol-NFR-129

Lyon, Gaspard Ortuin and Pierre Bouttellier (Schenck), c. 1485

ISTC: ij00218390, USTC: 71176, GW: 12651

Known copies: Geneva, Bibliothèque Landau, Collection Maus (incomplete); Paris, BnF, Rés mY2 31 (incomplete)

Lyon, Guillaume Le Roy, c. 1487

ISTC: ij00218400, USTC: 71177, GW: 12562

Known copies: London, Royal College of Physicians 5a(16) (incomplete); Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 182, Inc. J-094 (incomplete); Paris, Bibliothèque de l’École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux Arts, Masson 0860 (incomplete); Paris, BnF Arsenal, Fol. B 955 (inc.)

Lyon, Matthias Husz, after 26 March 1493 and before 12 March 1494

ISTC: ij00218405, USTC: 71178, GW: 12654

Known copies: Chantilly, Bibliothèque du Château de Chantilly (formerly Musée Condé), VI.I 30; Schweinfurt, Bibliothek Otto Schäfer, OS 215