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Egerton MS 2022
- Record Id:
- 032-001982949
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001982949
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x000152
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058017756.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 2022
- Title:
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Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 4r-194v: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun, beginning: 'Maintes gens dient que songes, na se fables non et mensonges'; ending: 'La flor du biau rosier flori/ Ainsi oi la rose vermeille/ Atant fu iors et ie mesveille'. Colophon: 'Car bien est temps que me repose/ Ci faut le roman de la rose. Explicit' (f. 194v).
Decoration:
1 full-page miniature in grisaille (f. 3v). 42 small miniatures in grisaille (ff. 5r, 5v (x3), 6r, 6v, 7r, 7v, 8v, 9r, 10r, 11v, 20r, 22v, 24v, 27r, 36r, 36v, 37r, 37v, 38r, 38v, 39v, 40r, 41r, 42r, 42v, 43r, 43v, 44v, 45v, 46v, 50v, 78v, 99v, 101r, 104v, 106v, 117r, 120r, 121v, 140v). Large and small initials and line-fillers in grey and white on dark blue grounds. Red rubrics.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001982949", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 2022: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001982949
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001982949
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex, 194 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058017756.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 195 x 125mm (text space: 150 x 95mm).
Layout: written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 194 (ff. 1 and 2 are paper flyleaves + 1 paper flyleaf after f. 1 and 1 parchment and 3 paper flyleaves at the end)
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post 1600. Red velvet with gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Central (Paris).
Provenance:
Félix Solar (b. 1815; d. 1870) reporter, financial adviser, poet and dramatist: cited as owned by him in the Catalogue des Livres rares et précieux, manuscrits et imprimés composant la bibliothèque de M. P. Desq de Lyon, (Paris: L. Potier, 1886) where it states that Desq purchased the manuscript from Solar at the sale of his library in 1860.
P. Desq (d. 1886) collector and bibliophile of Lyon: his book-plate with his name (f. 1v); his sale 25 April 1886, no 361, see the catalogue of this sale: Catalogue des Livres rares et précieux, manuscrits et imprimés composant la bibliothèque de M. P. Desq de Lyon, (Paris: L. Potier, 1886), p. 71.
Bought by the British Museum from Messrs. Boone, 10th November 1866, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1853-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), no. Eg. 2022.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 18.
Ernest Langlois, Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose: description et classement, Travaux et mémoires de l'Université de Lille, nouv. sér. I, 7 (Lille: Tallandier, 1910), p. 144.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 22.
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters, ed. by Harry Bober, 4 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1916-66), III: Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken (1953), p. 146.
John V. Fleming, Roman de la Rose: A Study in Allegory and Iconography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), fig. 22.
Naomi Miller, 'Paradise regained: Medieval Garden fountains', in Medieval Gardens, ed. by Elisabeth Blair MacDougall (Dumberton Oaks: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 135-54 (p. 147).
Alexander Murray, Suicide in the Middle Ages: The Curse of Self-Murder,2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), II, pl. 2.
Ursula Peters, Das ich im Bild: Die Figur des Autors in volkssprachigen Bilderhandschrifter des 13. bis 16. Jahrhunderts (Cologne: Bolau Verlag, 2008), p. 129.
Alicia Amherst, A History of Gardening in England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 75.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)