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- Record Id:
- 040-002024027
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002024016
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001443.0x000211
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057737630.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 31840
- Title:
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Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Roman de la Rose (ff. 3-142), followed by a collection of moral verses (ff. 142r-v). It includes:
ff. 3r-28r: The first section of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Loris. Rubric: 'Cest livre est apele la rose/ Du lart damours est toute enclose'. Beginning 'Maintes gens dient qu'en songes/ Na se fables non et menchonges'; ending 'Se ie pert vostre bien veillance/ Car ie nai mais aillours fiance'.
ff. 28r-142r: The second section of the Roman de la Rose by Jean de Meun: 'Et si lai ie perdue espoir/ Per pou que ne me desespoir'. Ending 'Ainsi oi la rose vermeille/ Atant fi iour et ie mesveille / Ci fenist li Romance/ de la Rose, ou lart damors/ est toute enclose'. A Latin rubric at the beginning names Jean de Meun: 'Hic incipit magister Johannes' (f. 28r).
ff. 142r-v: A moral distich consisting of forty-three verses, incipit, 'A riens ne bees fors a guile na plus maunes en ceste vile'.
Six leaves are missing (between ff. 10-11, 15-16, 76-77, 91-92; 128-129).
Decoration:
One framed miniature with full foliate border with rinceaux in blue and gold, divided into two parts showing Amant asleep and Oiseuse before the walled garden (f. 3r). In the lower border are two dogs following three hares (f. 3r). 43 framed miniatures in colours with gold on tesselated grounds. Initials in gold on rose and blue grounds with penwork decoration. Rubrics and highlighting in red.
Some of the miniatures were repainted in the 19th century; a list inserted at the beginning of the volume provides details (f. 1r).
The binding includes a bookmark, numbered as fse 004r in the digitised version of this manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002024016
040-002024027 - Is part of:
- Add MS 31830-31845 : Burges bequest
Add MS 31840 :Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun,
Roman de la Rose - Hierarchy:
- 032-002024016[0011]/040-002024027
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 31830-31845
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 142 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057737630.0x000001
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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: 265 x 180 mm (text space: 210 x 135m m).
Foliation: ff. 142 + (ff. 1-2 are added paper flyleaves + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).
Layout: in 2 columns of approximately 40 lines.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red velvet; a black cloth bookmark with red, gold and blue motifs sewn into the spine.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Central (Paris).
Provenance:
Additions by a Northern French hand of the first half of the fifteenth century (f. 31r).
Bernard Quaritch (d. 1889), collector and bookseller: sold to William Burges.
William Burges (d. 1881), architect and designer, asked Horatio Walter Lonsdale (d. 1919), painter and designer, to restore the miniatures of the manuscript. A note on a nineteenth-century paper flyleaf at the beginning of the volume (f. 1r-v) states: 'This MS. was bought from Bernard Quaritch of Piccadilly, London, by William Burges, Architect, in December, 1874, for £40. Most of the faces having been destroyed, he employed Horatio W. Lonsdale to repair them. The exact extent of these repairs is given below ...' (a list of the repaired images follows). Bequeathed by him in 1881 to the British Museum, along with fourteen other manuscripts, now Additional 31830-31845: a note on the inside upper binding states, 'Bequeathed by William Burges, 25 June 1881'.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), pp. 235-36.
Henry Leigh D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I (1883), pp. 884-85.
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. 146.
John V. Fleming, Roman de la Rose: A Study in Allegory and Iconography (New Haven: Princeton University Press, 1969), p. 71, fig. 15.
Mechthild Modersohn, Natura als Göttin im Mittelalter: Ikonographische Studien zur Darstellung der personifizierten Natur (Berlin: Akademieverlag, 1991), pl. 91.
Herman Braet, 'Narcisse et Pygmalion' in Mediaeval Antiquity, ed. by Andries Welkenhuysen, Herman Braet, Werner Verbeke (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1954), pp. 237-55, (pp. 239, 247, 248, 366).
The Romaunt of the Rose, ed. by Charles Dahlberg (Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999) p. xxi.
De la Rose: Text, Image, Fortune, ed. by Catherine Bel and Herman Braet (Louvain: Peeters, 2006), p. 125.
Victor A. Kolve, Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative (San Francisco: Stanford University Press, 2009), p. 194, pl. vi.II.
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)