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Royal MS 19 A XVIII
- Record Id:
- 040-002107588
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00034e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057738863.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 19 A XVIII
- Title:
- Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose (abridged version)
- Scope & Content:
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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, [P] les gens de la karolle [P] Comme courtoisie prie lamant de danssez'. The first part by Guillaume de Lorris is copied on the first two quires (ff. 1-16) and is about 2,500 lines long, written by a different scribe from the remaining quires. The parchment appears to have been torn and repaired. The second part is 11,500 lines long and omissions are again marked by rubrics. The passage identifying de Lorris as author is omitted, but the reference to Jean de Meun remains: 'Puis vendra Iehan Clopinel.' (f. 50r).
f. 1v: Table of contents in French quoting the original foliation: 'Haygne et felonnie .I. Convoitise avarice et envie .ii.'.
f. 2r-94v: Roman de la Rose, beginning 'Maintes gens dient que en songes/ Na se non fables et mensonges/ Mais len puet telz songes songier'; ending: 'Car ie tesmoingne et certefie/ Que tout quanque iay recite/ Est fine et pure verite/ Explicit'.
Decoration:
Puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork decoration in red and black (f. 1r). Numerous initials and paraphs in red or blue. Rubrics in red (ff. 1-16).
A pen trial likely drawn by the scribe (f. 17r).
Catchwords (e. g. ff. 24v, 32v). Running titles underlined in red ff. 30-37.
Annotation in a contemporary hand (f. 3r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107588 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 19 A XVIII : Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose (abridged version) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1735]/040-002107588
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 94 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057738863.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 210mm (text space: 225 x 155mm).
Layout: two columns of 38 lines.
Foliation: ff. 94 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1969.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Paris.
Provenance:
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13 or 14.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
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- Publications:
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Harry Leigh Douglas Ward and John Alexander Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I, pp. 885-87.
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. 140.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, p. 322.
'Extant Manuscripts' in 'Roman de la Rose Digital Library Project', phase II, directed by Stephen G. Nichols and G. Sayeed Choudhury (John Hopkins University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France) [accessed March 2016].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)