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- Record Id:
- 040-002041749
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x0002e1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057737502.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12042
- Title:
- Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Le Roman de la Rose:
ff. 1-32v: The first section by Guillaume de Lorris, begun around 1220, incipit, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes';
ff. 32v-148r: The continuation by Jean de Meun (or 'Jehan Chopinel'), composed between 1269 and 1278, begins with the rubric, 'Encor des co[m]plaints a l'amant, et ci com[m]enca M[aistr]e Jehan de meun le Roument'. The attribution to the two authors is on ff. 81r-82r. The poem ends, 'Explicit le romant de la roze / Ou lart damour est tout enclose' (f. 166v). Added marginal notes, mostly in Latin, contain passages from Ovid, Juvenal and other works imitated in the text (e.g., ff. 138v-139r).
Decoration: 1 framed miniature in colours with illuminated initial and full foliate border in colours with gold. 41 unframed miniatures in green and brown colour wash. Initials in red with pen-flourishing in brown or in blue with pen-flourishing in red. Initials with cadels (e.g., 32v) and zoomorphic decoration (e.g., 56v) in the top line of the text. Rubrics, page numbering and highlighting in red.
The subjects of the miniatures are:
f. 1r: L'Amant dreaming in his bed, with a richly-draped red cover;
Portraits on the wall of the Garden of Deduiz (ff. 2r-4v):
f. 2r: Haine, Felonie, Vilainie;
f. 2v: Convoitise, Avarice;
f 3r: Envie;
f. 3v: Tristesse, Vieillesse;
f. 4v: Pappelardie, Pauverté;
f. 7r: The Dance or Karoll in the Garden of Deduiz;
f. 11v: The Dieu d'Amours aims his golden bow at l'Amant;
f. 12r: Narcissus's mirror;
f. 14v: The Dieu d'Amour shoots an arrow into l'Amant's eye;
f. 23v: Belacueil giving l'Amant a leaf from the rose-bush;
f. 24v: Raison before her tower comforting l'Amant;
f. 34r: Raison scolds l'Amant;
f. 65v: Jalousie beating his wife;
f. 79r: The Dieu d'Amours appearing to l'Amant;
f. 80r: The Dieu d'Amours summoning his barons;
f. 85r: Vieille speaks to Contrainte, Atenance and Faux-semblant;
f. 94v: Abstinence-Contrainte preaching to Malebouche;
f. 96r: Faux-semblant strangling Malebouche;
f. 97r: Vieille giving Belacueil a crown of flowers;
f. 116r: Belaccueil is imprisoned in a castle and Dangier, Honte and Paour attack l'Amant;
f. 116v: Two women stand before the author who is writing his book;
f. 118r: Franchise and Dangier fighting with weapons;
f. 118v: Pitie comes to save Franchise from Dangier;
f. 119r: Honte comes to Dangier's aid and attacks Pitie; Delit comes to help Pitie but is vanquished by Dangier;
f. 119v: Bien Celer comes to Pitie's aid and vanquishes Honte; Paour comes to Honte's aid and vanquishes Bien Celer;
f. 120r: Hardement comes to help Bien Celler and is vanquished by Paour;
f. 120v: Seurtes comes to aid Hardement and attacks Paour;
f. 122r: Franchise and Doulx Regart give Venus a message and Venus rides off in her carriage;
f. 125v: Nature confesses to Genius;
f. 149r: Genius preaches Nature's message to unbelievers;
f. 159r: Pygmalion asks Venus to bring the statue to life;
f. 162v: Venus shoots a flaming arrow into the castle, the guards flee and Belacueil is freed;
f. 166r: L'Amant picks the Rose.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-002041749 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 12042 : Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose - Hierarchy:
- 032-002041530[0213]/040-002041749
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 166 folios
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057737502.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 330 x 260mm (text space: 230 x 200mm).
Layout: Written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 166 (+1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Binding of the Bibliotheca Butleriana: light brown leather with gold tooling and coat of arms.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance: 'Calipel' inscribed in a 16th-century hand on a rear unfoliated parchment flyleaf (f. [ii] verso)
Chevalier Bernard, from his library (see Catalogue of Additions (1882)).
Sold at Hodson's Rooms in 1829 for £10 18s: a note on a rear paper flyleaf, f. [iii]r).
Samuel Butler (b. 1774, d. 1839), headmaster and Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield: his book stamp 'E Bibliotheca Butleriana' and coat of arms with the motto 'Bellicae Virtutis Praemium' in gold on the upper binding; his sale, Payne and Foss, 15 July 1841, lot 472; bought by the British Museum, one of 300 manuscripts from the Butler library.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 28.
H. L. 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. 887-88.
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), pp. 145-46.
Herman Braet, 'L'illustration de l'illustration: L'exemple de l'image dans le Roman de la Rose', in Ensi firent li ancessor: Mélanges de philologie médiévale offert à Marc-René Jung, ed. by Luciano Rosi, 2 vols (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1996), II, pp. 491-504 (pp. 497, n. 44, 505).
Heidrun Ost, 'Illuminating the Roman de la Rose in the time of the debate: The manuscript of Valencia', in Patrons, Authors and Workshops: Books and Book Production in Paris around 1400, ed. by Godfried Croenen and Peter Ainsworth (Louvain: Peeters, 2006), p. 410, n. 16.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)