Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung — c. 1400; France, Paris
MS. Douce 371
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung — c. 1400; France, Paris
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 371
Place of origin
France, Paris
Date
c. 1400
Language
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
4 + cxlivleaves
Decoration
60 fine miniatures (coloured drawings, mostly in grisaille)
Fine border
Fine initials
Binding
Green morocco with gold ornament on back, with the printed label of Derome le Jeune
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Provenance
Renol Gueruni (?), fol. 142v
The manuscript has the armorial bookplate of J. J. Languet de Gergy, archbishop of Sens (1731-1753), who also owned MS. Douce 298
On fol. 1v is 'No. 613' in the same eighteenth-century hand which wrote 'No. 91' in MS. Douce 313
Francis Douce owned at least five copies of the Roman de la Rose. Of these we know that MS. Douce 188was bought in 1832 and MS. Douce 195 in 1829. MS. Douce 371 is probably identifiable with lot 1380 in the Morel-Vindésale, 1823, so either this manuscript or MS. Douce 364may be identified with the brief entry in Douce's 'Collecta' for March 1806 (diaries of antiquarian purchases, 1803-1810, MS. Douce e. 66): 'Guillemeau hist. de la rose... Dulau'
Francis Douce, 1757–1834
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Title
The Romance of the Rose, by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, in French: with no title or authors' names
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 371
Date
written in the 15th cent.
Language
French
Physical facet
On parchment, with many coloured drawings, binding: green morocco with gold ornament on back, with the printed label of Derome le Jeune
Physical extent
4 leaves, in double columns
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Collection contents
The Romance of the Rose, by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, in French: with no title or authors' names
