Bibliothèque interuniversitaire section médecine, Université Montpellier, H245, fol. 67v, 1375-1400

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Folio 69v Detailed manuscript information (based on Ernest Langlois, Les manuscrits du Roman de la rose. Description et classement, Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1974, p. 134-35):

Parchment, measure: 305x216mm, 157 fols. at two columns 42 lines. Beginning of second folio: Et qui de vous se part et emble. The Roman de la rose is on fols 1r to 131r, followed by the Codicille on fols 131r-v and the Testament on fols 131r-157r.

Scene depicted

The God of Love crowning False Seeming

Miniature description

Size:

305x216mm

Column miniature

Height: Approx. 5 lines

Material and colors:

Parchment

Gold leaf, blue, red, white, brown, black, grey

Rubric:

Placed above miniature. Two lines that read: “Comment amours recoit faussemblant et le fait roy des ribaus de sa court”

Frame:

Simple gold leaf exterior frame with gold leaf cornerpieces. Interior frame is blue with a white zigzag pattern on both the left and right sides and a white stripe on the top and bottom.

Background:

Background is orange with a red filigree pattern.

Place of production of miniature:

France

Date of production of miniature:

1375-1400

Similarities with other images of the corpus:

The act of crowning is similar to the following manuscripts: BGE, Ms. FR 178, fol. 82r; ÖNB. Codex 2592, fol. 75v.

The positions of the allegories are similar in the following manuscripts: BGE, Ms. FR 178, fol. 82r; ÖNB. Codex 2592, fol. 75v ; BSG. Ms. 1126, fol. 77r.

Secondary Sources:

Langlois, Ernest. Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose. Description et classement. Geneva: Slatkine reprints, 1974, pp. 134-135.

Detailed description

Allegories:

False Seeming is on the right.

God of Love is on the left.

Clothing and other features:

1. God of Love

Dark blue cotehardie with white and red tippets
Light blue-grey capuchon
Light blue chausses
Baldrick with a short-handled white dagger
Black poulaines

2. False Seeming

Black monk’s habit with cowl
White alb
Gold leaf crown being placed upon his head
Tonsured shaved head

Gestures:

False Seeming bows to God of Love, his hands raised in acceptance, while God of Love places a crown on False Seeming's head.

Ex-libris

Fols 1r and repeated on 157r: The signature of P. Florimond dated from 1567.
On the first flyleaf: Ms. de la bibliothèque de Mr. le P. Bouhier .C. 33. MDCCXXI.
At the end, the following lines have been added:
1. Explicit le Romans de la Rose,
  Ou l'Art d'Amours est toute enclose.
  Nature rit, si com moy semble,
  Quant hic et hec joingnent ensemble.

Bibliothèque interuniversitaire section médecine, Université Montpellier, H245, fol. 67v, 1375-1400

Miniature description

Detailed description

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