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Royal MS 19 B XII
- Record Id:
- 040-002107604
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00035e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057738873.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 19 B XII
- Title:
- Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; poems including Jean Chapuis, Les Sept Articles de Foi
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris continued by Jean de Meun. Jean de Meun's portion begins f. 28v: ' Et si lay je perdue espoir'.
ff. 2r-147v: 'Maintes genz dient quen songe/ Na se fables non et mensonge./ Mais on puet tel songe songier/ Qui me sont mie mensongier'. Ending: 'Et quiconque blasme les songes/ Et die que ce sont menconges/ De cestui ne le di je mie/ Car je tesmoigne et certifie/ Que tout quanque jay recite/ Est fine et pure verite. Explicit'. From another contemporary hand: 'La Romance de la rose'.
f. 147v: besides the explicit of the Roman de la Rose, two verses written by the same scribe: 'Nus hons ne doit tant amer, comme son deul laissier/ Aller puis quil ne le peut amender et toud jours vivre en joie'.
ff. 148r-179r: Le Testament attributed to Jean de Meun: rubric: 'Ci commence le testament maistre Jehan de Meun qui traite de tres noble et notable matiere, lequel maistre Jehan de Meun ecrist le Roman de la Rose'; beginning: 'Li peres et li filz et li sains esperis du Dieu en trois personnes', ending: 'Du saint livre de vie/ Quils mesme descript. amen'; rubric: 'Cy fine le testament de maistre Jehan de Meun et commence le Songe'.
ff. 179r-181r: Le Songe (Anonymous), often attributed to Jean de Meun: 'J'estoie l'autre jour en contemplation/ Et avoie tourney vers Dieu m'entention', ending: 'Si bon definement / Quil nous maint en sa joye/ Lassus communement'.
The first and last rubrics mention the Codicille of Jean de Meun whereas the miniature representing the Trinity is closely linked to the content of the treatise (f. 181r) .
ff. 181r-193r: Les Sept Articles de Foi or Trésor of Jean Chapuis: Rubric: 'Cy commence le codicille maistre Jehan de Meun', beginning: 'O Glorieuse trinite/ une essence en vray unite', ending: 'Que les corpeaux et les chappuis/ Prendras en gre que Jen Chappuis/ Car ce te plaist comen puet faire', rubric: 'Cy fine le codicille de/ maistre Jehan de Meun'.
ff. 193v-194r: (Anonymous) Devotional poem: 'Dieux ait lame des trespassez/ Car des biens quilz ont amassez.', ending: 'Quant vous ne marez pas creu/ A tart vous en repentirez. Explicit.'
Decoration:
Tinted drawing in colours showing the Trinity (f. 181r). Full border in colours and gold with vine leaf extensions and an historiated initial 'M'(aintes) of the lovers sleeping (f. 2r). Partial bar border in colours and gold with vine leaf extensions and a large illuminated initial with vine motifs (f. 148r). Smaller illuminated initial 'O' with vine motifs (f. 181r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing and in red with black pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107604 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 19 B XII : Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose; poems including Jean Chapuis, Les Sept Articles de Foi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1751]/040-002107604
- 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, 194 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057738873.0x000001
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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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 235mm (text space: 235 x 165mm).
Layout: two columns of 40 lines.
Foliation: ff. 194 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end + 2 parchment stubs after f. 147).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Royal library binding of brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Central (Paris?).
Provenance:
Nicholas Upton, heraldic writer, precentor of Salisbury from 1446 to 1457: his effaced ownership inscription: 'Liber magistri Nicholai Upton precentoris Sar.' (f. 194v).
Humphrey Stafford (b. 1425 d. 1458), earl of Stafford from 1444 to 1455, son of Humphrey Duke of Buckingham: his effaced ownership inscription, 'pnti Humffridi comes Stafford' (f. 194v).
Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland: the monogram 'HR' [for Henricus Rex] (f. 2r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1413' (f. 2r), included in the Upper Library at Westminster after 1547, and 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.
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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, p. 888.
Leon E. Kastner, 'Le Songe: Poème allégorique et religieux du XIIIe siècle', Revue de Philologie française et de Littérature, 17 (1903), 241-47.
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. 140-41.
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, pp. 327-28.
Herman Beart, 'Der Roman der Rose: Raum im Blick', in Träume im Mittelalter: Ikonologische Studien, ed. by Agostino Paravicini Bagliani and Giorgio Stabile (Stuttgart: Belser, 1989), pp. 183-92 (p. 190, n. 2).
James P. Carley, 'Marks in Books and the Libraries of Henry VIII', Papers-Bibliographical Society of America, 91 (1997), 583-606 (p. 604).
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by James P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.1413.
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)