Roman de la Rose.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.

Contributor:

Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305.

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Roman de la rose

Language:

French, Old (ca. 842-1300)

Subjects (All):

French poetry--To 1500.

French poetry.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

romances (medieval narratives)

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Signatures: Marcel (inside upper cover); Delaplanches (f. 1r).

Sold in the Ashburnham collection at auction at Sotheby's, 10 June 1901, lot 607.

Sold by Librairie J. Thiebaud, 1950.

Physical Description:

342 leaves : paper ; 302 x 210 (192 x 90) mm bound to 310 x 216 mm

Place of Publication:

[France], [after 1474]

Language Note:

Old French.

Summary:

French allegorical poem written in the 13th century by Guillaume de Lorris and continued by Jean de Meun; the section by Jean de Meun starts at line 4059, f. 64.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from flyleaf, in a later hand.

Verses 64-73 pasted on f. [ii] recto in contemporary hand; some marginalia trimmed and lost.

Collation: Paper, 342; 1-18¹⁶ 19¹⁸ 20-22¹⁶; [ii], 1-317, 319-340, [i]; misnumbered at 318, no loss of text. Foliation and line numbering in a later hand. Signatures at bottom right; catchwords at bottom center, often cropped.

Layout: Written in 31-37 long lines; text block boundaries ruled in drypoint.

Script: Written in Gothic cursive, with the first words or first line at the beginning of sections in bâtarde script; f. 306-322v (a single gathering) in a second hand.

Decoration: Many 2- and 3-line initials in red; capital at beginning of each line stroked with yellow; rubrication in red, often with cropped notes for rubrication or illustration barely visible at edge of page; spaces for illumination, approximately 9 lines in height, are frequent at the beginning of the manuscript but disappear in the second half (after f. 171v).

Watermark: Gatherings 1-19, Briquet 1799 (1474); gatherings 20-22 include Briquet 1548 (1463), 1701 (1454), and 1546 (1457).

Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked; wormholes in boards, leather, and text near spine.

Origin: Written in France after 1474, based on primary watermark.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 54 (Ms. French 1).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 906.

OCLC:

155925165

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