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Stowe MS 947
- Record Id:
- 040-001953795
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x0001e3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057738973.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 947
- Title:
- Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
- Scope & Content:
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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/ Ainz sont apres bien apparant', ending: 'Atant fu iour et iue [mes]veille/ Amen/ Explicit le Rommans de la rose/ Ou lart damour est tout enclose'.
Decoration:
1 two-column miniature, with a large decorated foliate initial and a full foliate border with bird and animals, in colours and gold (f. 1r). 22 single column miniatures, accompanied by small decorated foliate initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 2r (x2), 2v (x2), 3r, 3v (x2), 4r, 4v, 5v, 7r, 11v, 13r, 13v, 15r, 27v, 28v, 29, 30v [with a large initial], 53r, 88r, 110r). Small initials in gold on red and blue grounds.
The decoration of the manuscript is attributed to the Parisian artist the Fauvel Master (fl. 1314 to c. 1340). See: Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse, Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500, 2 vols (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2000), I, 213, 380 n. 91.
Catchwords (e. g. ff. 8v, 16v, 32v)
Quire signatures: (e. g. ff. 25-28, 51-58).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001953794
040-001953795 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 947-980 : CLASS XXI.POETRY, AND PROSE DRAMA.
Stowe MS 947 : Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0021]/036-001953794[0001]/040-001953795
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057738973.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1325
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 300 x 215mm (text space: 215 x 165mm).
Layout: two columns of 36 lines.
Foliation: ff. 155 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Marbled leather; marbled endpapers; painted edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Paris, France.
Provenance:
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham: inscribed with the press-mark 'Press 2 no. 99' (f. 1r), corresponding to his catalogue (O'Conor 1818-1819).
Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Charles O'Conor, Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Stowe Library, 2 vols (Buckingham: Seeley, 1818-1819), I, 381-82.
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, no. 947.
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 and Paris: H. Champion, 1910), pp. 146, 238.
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters, ed. by Harry Bober, 4 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1916-1966), III: Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken (1953), p. 273.
Alison Stones, 'The stylistic context of the roman de Fauvel, with a note on Fauvain', in Fauvel studies: allegory, chronicle, music, and image in Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, ms français 146, ed. by Margaret Bent and Andrew Wathey (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), 529-67 (p. 553).
Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse, Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500, 2 vols (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2000), I, 213, 380 n. 91; II, App. 8D.
Herman Braet, ‘L’instruction, le titulus, la rubrique: Observations sur la nature des éléments péritextuels’, in ’Als Ich Can’: Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, ed. by Bert Cardon and others (Paris: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2002), pp. 203-12 (p. 203).
Ardis Butterfield, 'Articulating the Author: Gower and the French Vernacular Codex', The Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 80-96 (p. 85).
Herman Braet, Nouvelle Bibliographie du Roman de la Rose (Louvain: Peeters, 2017), p. 203.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)