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Detailed manuscript information (based on Roman de la rose digital surrogates of medieval manuscripts and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, 1(1989) : 173-76).

Parchment, measure: 215 x 152mm, 2 columns of 40 lines, 143 fols. Completed in Paris (?) under northern French influence. 29 lines have been added to the end of the Rose:

  • Et puis que l [sic] ie sui esvellie
    Du songe qui m'a travallie
    Et mout y ai eu afaire
    Ainz q[ue] ie peusse a chief traire
    De ce que i'av oie entrepris
    Mes toutevoie ai ie pris
    Le bouton que ie desiroie
    Co[nbie]n que travalliez m'i soie
    Et tout le soulaz de m'amie
    Maugre Dangier [et] Jalousie
    Et maugre Raiso[n] e[n]sement
    Qui tant me le da[n]ia form[en]t
  • [col. b]
    Mes Amours m'avoit bien promis
    Et ainssi le me dist Amis
    Se ie servoie loyaument
    Q[ue] i'avroie prouchainnement
    Ma voule[n]te toute aco[m]plie
    Foulz est qui en Dieu ne se fie
    Et quico[n]ques blasme les songes
    Et die que ce s[on]t menconges
    De cestui ne le di ge mie
    Car ie tesmoingne et certifie
    Que tout qu[an] que ai recite
    Est fine et pure verite
    Explicit le [sic]
    Ou l'art d'amours est toute enclose
    Ce livre de la Rose est
    de Jehan de meun et
    de G..... de. .......
 

Roman de la rose digital surrogates of medieval manuscripts

Ex-libris

  1. Modern entries concerning author and contents on front pastedown and fol. A. Perhaps owned by Léon Gruel, Paris bookbinder and bookseller, s. XIX/XX (3-page written description with no identifying marks, WAG file, p. 1 formerly affixed to front pastedown, a practice generally observed in manuscripts acquired from Gruel). Purchased between 1895 and 1931.
  2. Fol. 24: Et sachiez que.

Folio 062v

Folio 128r

 

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