Title from incipit (leaf a1r): ...en volume ou histore autentique les vertueux nobles et glorieux faiz du tresvailla[n]t et reno[m]me chevalier Trista[n] filz du puissa[n]t roy meliadus de leonoys.
Imprint from colophon (leaf tt2v): ...livre a este i[m]prime a roue[n] en lostel Jeha[n] le bourgoys Fait [et] acheve le dernier iour de septembre. Lan de grace Mil.cccc.iiii.xx. et .ix.
Printed in Bourgeois's type 1:190G.
Collation: I) a-z⁸ [et]²; A²: 188 leaves; II) aa-ss⁸ tt⁴: 148 leaves, leaves aa1 and tt4 blank. GW has variant collation for Part I with quire A first.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Polain describes a variant with a shorter colophon and Vérard's name omitted.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.8 cm.
PML copy is Part II only and lacks 2 leaves: aa1 and tt4 (blanks); with variant colophon lacking Vérard's name. Leaves tt1-tt3 repaired at gutter.
Le roman du noble et vaillant Chevalier Tristan
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: No notations in text. Inscriptions and pen trials, French, 16th century (leaf tt3v).