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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 A XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 A XVIII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose (abridged version)
Scope & Content:
Content: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris continued by Jean de Meun. This manuscript contains an abridged version of the romance. The text is only 14,000 lines long, with omissions noted. For example on f. 5, rubrics marked by paraphs summarise the narrative omitted, e.g., '[P] Oyseuse, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 94 folios.

3. Royal MS 19 B XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 19 B XII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; poems including Jean Chapuis, Les Sept Articles de Foi
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris continued by Jean de Meun. Jean de Meun's portion begins f. 28v: ' Et si lay je perdue espoir'. ff. 2r-147v: 'Maintes genz dient quen songe/ Na se fables non et mensonge./ Mais on puet tel songe songier/ Qui me sont mie mensongier'. Ending:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 194 folios.

4. 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

5. 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

6. Royal MS 20 D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D VII
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun at f. 25r; 'Et si lay je perdu espoir'.. ff. 1r-128r: beginning, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes/ Na se flabes non et menconges/ Mus on puet telz songes songes/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier', ending: 'Ainsi oi la ro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 128 folios.

7. Stowe MS 947

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 947
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1230) and continued by Jean de Meun approximately forty years later. ff. 1r-155v: beginning: 'Maintes gens dient/ Que en songes/ Na se fables non/ Et menconges/ Mais len puet tel/ Songes songier/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier/ Ain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Yates Thompson MS 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 21
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose; Le Pèlerinage de mestre Jehan de Meung; le Testament
Scope & Content:
Content: Le pèlerinage de Jehan de Meun (ff. 1r-2v) is an addition in a later hand of the first quarter of the sixteenth century. This is likely an abridged and reworking version of Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine, a moralizing poem by Guillaume de Diguleville written in 1330. The Roman de la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1380-1390
Extent:

1 volume