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Language French Name Meun, Jean, poet, c 1240-c 1305 Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 3999

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3999
Title:
Collection of devotional texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a miscellany of devotional texts produced in one campaign as a collection: ff. 1r-24r: Le trésor attributed to Jean de Meun, rubric: 'Icy commence le tresor maistre Jehan de Mehun', incipit: 'O glorieuse trinite'. ff. 25r-65v: Pierre de Nesson, Les vigiles des morts, ru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

2. Royal MS 19 B XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XIII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun; rubric: 'Ci commence le romans de la rose Ou lart damors est toute enclose'; incipit: 'Maintes genz dient que en songes Na se fables non et menconges'; explicit: 'Ainsint oi la rose vermeille Atant fu ior et ie mesueille.' Colophon: 'Expl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
c 1320-c 1340
Extent:

A parchment codex, 144 folios

3. Royal MS 20 A XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 A XVII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; Thomas de Bailleul, la Bataille d'Annezin
Scope & Content:
The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris between 1225 and 1245 and was continued between 1269-1278 by Jean de Meun. It is around 20,000 octosyllabic lines of French verse narrating the dream of a young lover, in which his long quest for the object of his desire ends when he breaches...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c1340-1350
Extent:

A parchment codex