«En autre penser». Il ms. Hamilton 49 nella tradizione del Lancelot in prosa

«En autre penser». Il ms. Hamilton 49 nella tradizione del Lancelot in prosa
The Hamilton 49 manuscript from the Berlin Staatsbibliothek conserves a portion of the prose Lancelot and belong to the already well-known group of manuscripts produced in Genoa at the end of the XIIIth century with a strong partecipation of prisoners from Pisa ensuing the Battle of Meloria. Once showed the main elements of a codicological, linguistic and iconographical analysis, we focus on the text, underlighting innovations and omissions; some of them are worth considering (most of all regarding the love and graal themes), but the text altogether seems often distorted due to simple carelessness of the scribe; this aspect well fits with the material features of the book, rather poor. Even if in the first part of the Lancelot there isn’t a real competition between different redactions, it is possible to distinguish two large groups of witnesses; main elements are provided for the collocation of Hamilton 49 in the manuscript tradition.