Oversize Ms. Codex 906 Roman de la Rose
Title
Roman de la RoseAuthors
- 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 PennsylvaniaLanguage
Old FrenchOrigin
Written in France after 1474, based on primary watermark.
- Date
- after 1474
- Place
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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 mmCollation
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
PaperBinding
Contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked; wormholes in boards, leather, and text near spine.Layout
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
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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- URL
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Decorations
- Inside front cover — Owner signature, Inside front cover
- fol. 1r — Owner signature, f. 1r
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- 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
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- 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
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- fol. 112r — Penwork initial, f. 112r
- fol. 114v — Penwork initial, Initia S, f. 114v
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- fol. 130r — Penwork initial, f. 130r
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- fol. 275v — Penwork initial, f. 275v
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