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Royal MS 20 D VII
- Record Id:
- 040-002107696
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00023f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057738912.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 20 D VII
- Title:
- Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
- Scope & Content:
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Content:
The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun at f. 25r; 'Et si lay je perdu espoir'..
ff. 1r-128r: beginning, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes/ Na se flabes non et menconges/ Mus on puet telz songes songes/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier', ending: 'Ainsi oi la rose vermeille/ A tant fu jour et je mesveille. Explicit. Le roumant de la rose/ ou lart damours est toute enclose/ Deo gracias'.
Decoration:
Partial bar border in colours and gold with vine leaf extensions and a foliate initial with foliate extensions into the margins, in colour and on gold ground (f. 1r). Small initials in blue with red pen flourishing or in red with black pen flourishing.
A pen trial drawn by the scribe: f. 77r.
Catchwords (e. g. ff. 12v, 36v, 108v).
Running titles (e. g. ff. 39-49).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107696 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 20 D VII : Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1837]/040-002107696
- 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, 128 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057738912.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- 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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 340 x 240mm (text space: 255 x 190).
Layout: two columns of 40/45 lines.
Foliation: ff. 128 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Central (Paris).
Provenance:
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 736' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 f. 20, 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.
- 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.
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- 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 (1883), pp. 889-90.
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. 142-43, 238.
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. 381.
William R. Tymms and Matthew D. Wyatt, The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (London: Day and Sons, 1860; repr. Studio Editions, 1987), pl. XIII.2.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by James P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.473.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)