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Title

Roman de la Rose

Authors

• Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230
• Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305

Other related names

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

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 906
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935591523503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155862547
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3559152

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Old French

Origin

Date

after 1474

Place

France

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.
   

Watermark

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

Extent

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

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.

Support

Paper

Binding

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

Layout

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

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).

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.

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.
   

Subjects topical

• French poetry--To 1500

Genres

• Codices
• Romances (literary genre)
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• Paper
• Literature -- Poetry

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner signature, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Owner signature, f. 1r
• fol. 5v — Penwork initial, f. 5v
• fol. 7v — Penwork initial, f. 7v
• fol. 11r — Penwork initial, f. 11r
• fol. 12r — Penwork initial, f. 12r
• fol. 13v — Manicule, f. 13v
• fol. 15r — Penwork initial, f. 15r
• fol. 21v — Manicule, f. 21v
• fol. 29v — Penwork initial, f. 29v
• fol. 30r — Penwork initial, f. 30r
• fol. 32v — Penwork initial, f. 32v
• fol. 34r — Penwork initial, f. 34r
• fol. 34v — Penwork initial, f. 34v
• fol. 36v — Penwork initial, f. 36v
• fol. 37v — Penwork initial, f. 37v
• fol. 43v — Penwork initial, f. 43v
• fol. 46v — Penwork initial, f. 46v
• fol. 59v — Penwork initial, f. 59v
• fol. 60v — Penwork initial, f. 60v
• fol. 72r — Penwork initial, f. 72r
• fol. 73r — Penwork initial, f. 73r
• fol. 75v — Penwork initial, f. 75v
• fol. 80r — Penwork initial, f. 80r
• fol. 83v — Penwork initial, Initial S, f. 83v
• fol. 89r — Penwork initial, f. 89r
• fol. 100v — Penwork initial, f. 100v
• fol. 101v — Penwork Initial, f. 101v
• fol. 108v — Manicule, f. 108v
• fol. 111r — Penwork initial, f. 111r
• fol. 111v — Penwork initial, f. 111v
• fol. 112r — Penwork initial, f. 112r
• fol. 114v — Penwork initial, Initia S, f. 114v
• fol. 116v — Penwork initial, Initial S, f. 116v
• fol. 117v — Penwork initial, f. 117v
• fol. 130r — Penwork initial, f. 130r
• fol. 134r — Manicule, f. 134r
• fol. 134v — Penwork initial, f. 134v
• fol. 147r — Penwork initial, f. 147r
• fol. 147v — Penwork initial, f. 147v
• fol. 150v — Penwork initial, f. 150v
• fol. 152r — Penwork initial, f. 152r
• fol. 155v — Manicule, f. 155v
• fol. 156v — Manicule, f. 156v
• fol. 160r — Penwork initial, f. 160r
• fol. 162v — Penwork initial, f. 162v
• fol. 164v — Penwork initial, f. 164v
• fol. 170v — Manicule, f. 170v
• fol. 177v — Penwork initial, f. 177v
• fol. 196v — Penwork initial, f. 196v
• fol. 196v — Penwork initial, f. 196v
• fol. 200r — Penwork initial, f. 200r
• fol. 202r — Penwork initial, f. 202r
• fol. 203r — Penwork initial, f. 203r
• fol. 203v — Penwork initial, f. 203v
• fol. 205r — Penwork initial, f. 205r
• fol. 205v — Penwork initial, f. 205v
• fol. 206r — Penwork initial, f. 206r
• fol. 207r — Penwork initial, f. 207r
• fol. 226v — Penwork initial, f. 226v
• fol. 232v — Penwork initial, f. 232v
• fol. 248r — Penwork initial, f. 248r
• fol. 257r — Penwork initial, f. 257r
• fol. 257v — Penwork initial, f. 257v
• fol. 268v — Penwork initial, f. 268v
• fol. 270v — Penwork initial, f. 270v
• fol. 272r — Penwork initial, f. 272r
• fol. 273r — Penwork initial, f. 273r
• fol. 274r — Penwork initial, f. 274r
• fol. 275v — Penwork initial, f. 275v
• fol. 288r — Penwork initial, f. 288r
• fol. 291v — Penwork initial, f. 291v
• fol. 294v — Penwork initial, f. 294v