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Yates Thompson MS 21
- Record Id:
- 040-002354542
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x00021c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057739003.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 21
- Title:
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Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose; Le Pèlerinage de mestre Jehan de Meung; le Testament
- Scope & Content:
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Content:
Le pèlerinage de Jehan de Meun (ff. 1r-2v) is an addition in a later hand of the first quarter of the sixteenth century. This is likely an abridged and reworking version of Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine, a moralizing poem by Guillaume de Diguleville written in 1330.
The Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1230) and continued by Jean de Meun approximately forty years later. The portion of Jean de Meun begins f. 69v: 'Puis viendra Jehan Chopinel/ Au cuer iolis au cuer isinel/ Qui nestra sus Lorre a Meun'. The Roman de la Rose is followed by the Testament attributed to Jean de Meun. This poem is often included in manuscripts containing the Roman de la Rose.
ff. 3r-142v: The Roman de la Rose: beginning, 'Maintes gens dient/ que en songes/ nait se fables non/ et mensonges/ Mes len puet bien tel fois songier/ Qui ne sont mie mensongier', ending: 'Ainsi oi la rose vermeille/ Adont fut iour et ie mesveille/ Explicit li Romans de la Rose/ Ou lart damour est toute enclose'.
ff. 143r-171r: Le Testament attributed to Jean de Meun: 'Li peres et li filz et li sains esperis/ Un dieu en trois personnes adoures et cheris'. Ending: 'Et li prit humblement que nous soions escript/ Ou saint livre de vie que il meismes escript/ Explicit'.
In the same hand, a fragment of the Pronostics d'Ezechiel, a text composed in the second half of the thirteenth century by an anonymous author.
f. 171r: 'En terre de labour et de promission'.
Decoration:
25 small one-column miniatures in grisaille on coloured grounds, the first accompanied by a large decorated initial and a full foliate border in gold, red and blue (ff. 3r, 3v, 4r (x3), 4v, 5r (x2), 5v, 6r, 6v, 8v (x2), 9v, 10v, 11r, 26v, 68v, 69v, 108r, 127r, 136r, 137v, 138r, 138v). Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Line-fillers in wavy lines in red or blue.
f. 143r: a miniature in grisaille of the Trinity with a finely-worked coloured background in blue and red with a full foliated border in gold, red and blue.
f. 69v: a portion of the Roman de la Rose by Jean de Meun. A miniature of him writing the opening words of the text 'Maintes gens dient que en songes nait se fable'.
Leaf signatures (e. g. ff. 113-116).
Marginal annotations in a later hand in black ink: (e. g. 115v; 118r, 119v, 129v, 131r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002354542 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 21 : Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose; Le Pèlerinage de mestre Jehan de Meung; le Testament - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0022]/040-002354542
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Yates Thompson MS 1-59
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057739003.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1380
- End Date:
- 1390
- Date Range:
- 1380-1390
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 315 x 225 (245 x 175) mm.
Layout: two columns of 40 lines.
Foliation: ff. 171 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 at the end).
Collation: 15 quires. 12 (ff. 1-2), 2-1412 (ff. 3-158),1512+1 (13th leaf inserted after f. 170; ff. 159-171).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown diced leather, 18th century. Same binding as Yates Thompson 24.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Paris, France.
Provenance:
Two former owners are mentioned in the catalogue of the College of Clermont, Paris (see below): Guillaume Richerot and Achilles Herbelin.
The Jesuit College of Paris, College of Clermont: inscribed 'Paraphé au desir de l’arret du cinq Juillet mil sept cens soixante trois. Mesnil.' (f. 1); this inscription was written in all the manuscripts belonging to this Library before they were sold in 1764 upon the expulsion of the Jesuits from France (see Léopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale 3 vols (Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1868-81), I, p. 436); described in the sale catalogue of the Jesuits' Library manuscripts in 1764 (see Catalogus Manuscriptorum Codicum Collegii Claromontani, Paris: [n. pub.], 1764, no. 830 pp. 315-16).
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham; his Appendix Ms. 171; bought from Woodburn, November 1851, for £20, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix (London: Hodgson, 1853).
Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire Ashburnham Appendix: book-plate with an inscribed number 'From the Library of the Earl of Ashburnham Appendix no. CLXXI May 1897' (inside upper cover).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] 77 / £bne.e.e [i.e. £150.0.0] / [bought from] Earl of / Ashburnham / 1897' (inside upper cover).Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Second Series of Fifty Manuscripts (Nos. 51 to 100) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1902), no. 77, pp. 186-88.
Durante Waite Robertson, A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963), pl. 68.
Virginia Wylie Egbert, The Mediaeval Artist at Work (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 76, pl. 28.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, 168 [rejected].
De la Rose. Texte, Image, Fortune, ed. by Catherine Bel and Herman Bret (Louvain: Peeters, 2006), p. 542.
Herman Braet, 'Du portrait d'auteur dans le Roman de la Rose' in Medieval manuscripts in transition: tradition and creative recycling, ed. by Geert H. M. Claassens and Werner Verbeke (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2006), pp. 78-96.
Alessandra Fiori, 'La rapprentazione della musica nella letteratura e nella societa', Il Medioevo, 8 (2009), 634-41 (pp. 634, 637).
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)