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Folio 102v2Detailed manuscript information (based on Pierpont Morgan Library Catalogue MSS. 1906, no. 112):

Vellum, measure 8x5.5", 1 + 189 fols, two columns 34 lines. This manuscript contains the Roman de la rose (fols 1-156r), the Testament (fols 158r-189v) by Jean de Meun.


Scene depicted
 
Depiction of the Duenna's lesson of a "man who goes into a religious order and comes to repent of it afterwards. He needs only a little more grief to hang himself. He complains and laments [...]." From the excerpt of the Duenna's Lessons in "Reading the Roman de la  Rose", lines 1426-28. 

Ex-libris

  1. Inscription on fol. 158: Johannes Marous (ca. 1525)
  2. Inscription on first folio: Pierre Vischer de Bâle (1773)
  3. Ex-libris: Bought 20 June 1995 by William Morris
  4. Inscription on fly-leaf, and ex-libris: Richard Bennett collection, 1897.

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